Castaway

New York:: Random House, 1934. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is lightly soiled/marked and has several small chips at the edges. NOT price clipped (1.75). NOT faded. Protected by a removable Brodart clear plastic sleeve. No owner's name or bookplate. Inner hinges are perfect. Text pages are clean. Bound in the original silver-stamped black cloth, a little spotted. Top edge tinted greenish blue. Although the number of copies printed is unknown, Bruccoli says publisher records reveal only 1,410 copies were sold. This First U.S. Edition has dozens of textual variations when compared to the first U.K. Edition (London, also 1934). The Dust Jacket is the first U.S. impression, printed in gray and reddish-orange on tan paper with rear panel listing books by 6 Random House authors, as called for. See: Bruccoli A9.2.a. [in JAMES GOULD COZZENS, A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY]. Semi-allegorical, psychological horror tale set in New York City. From the Dust Jacket: "The author of THE LAST ADAM and S.S. SAN PEDRO tells in CASTAWAY a story of spectral terror. A desperate man stumbles blindly into a huge department store. Evidently he is the only human being in the entire building... Is he the only man left alive in all the world? The weird tale rushes on to a breath-taking solution. CASTAWAY is addressed to readers who appreciate the tales of Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce." Cozzens went on to win the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. . First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Very Good condition./Good Dust Jacket.. 181pp. 5 inches wide by 7.5 inches tall..