Appointment in Samarra by O'Hara, John - 1934

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1934. First edition, stated, of the author's first book, in first issue dust-jacket withe $2.50 price and "Recent Fiction" on back panel, with erratum slip. 301pp. Publisher's black cloth with a lean to the spine, bright interior. Unclipped dust-jacket with a one inch square hole and a tear down the sunned spine, some chips to the foot and head, and some tears closed with tape. First edition, stated, of the author's first book, in first issue dust-jacket withe $2.50 price and "Recent Fiction" on back panel, with erratum slip. 301pp. O'Hara's wildly successful first novel, the story of the disintegration of Julian English.

"If you want to read a book by a man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well, read Appointment in Samarra" - Ernest Hemingway ("Old Newsman Writes," Esquire, December, 1934).