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Tobacco Road (Unabridged Edition)
by Erskine Caldwell
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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NZ$16.81NZ$11.77
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About This Item
New York, NY: Signet Books/NAL, 1964 Signet Books/NAL, New York. 1964. Softcover/Mass Market Paperback. Stated 35th Printing August 1964. Complete and Unabridged. D2086 Priced at 50 cents. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on the first page. Book Condition: Very Good; slight edgewear on spine; slight bumping to tips and head. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. Tinted textblock edges. 159 pp 12mo. The book is a tale of violence and sex among rural poor in the American South. It is the story of Georgia sharecropper Jeeter Lester and his family, who are trapped by the bleak economic conditions of the Depression as well as by their own limited intelligence and destructive sexuality. Its tragic ending is almost foreordained by the characters’ inability to change their lives. Caldwell’s skillful use of dialect and his plain style made the book one of the best examples of literary naturalism in contemporary American fiction. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011743
- Title
- Tobacco Road (Unabridged Edition)
- Author
- Erskine Caldwell
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Signet Books/NAL
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1964
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Erskine Caldwell, stage play, motion picture, novel of the Old South, poor white trash, hill people, White Trash, Jeeter Lester, sharecroppers, tobacco farmers, sexual violence, sexuality, alcohol, drinking, alcoholism, sexual abuse,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Poor
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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