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Signet, 1951. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Signet. G. 1951. Paperback; 6th Printing. #818. Complete/unabridged. Quite a bit of usage showing. Spine ends damaged/sticker damage on rear cover. Text quite tight. Natural pge browning/foxing. ; Remainder; 144 pages .

Pan Books Ltd, 1961. Paperback. Good. 1961. No edition remarks. 156 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Signet Books. Paperback, in Very Good + condition, no stamps writing or marks, paper is tanning with age, straight spine without creases, covers look nice except for a bit of edge wear , very nice shape for an older book, Signet #818, . Very Good. Paperback. 1950.

A Fawcett Gold Medal Book, 1958. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

A Fawcett Gold Medal Book, 1958-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 0.5000 in x 7.0000 in x 4.0000 in. Fawcett Gold Medal paperback. Ex-library and reading copy.

William Heinemann Ltd, 1959-12-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback. Clean copy in good condition. This book is First Edition, published in 1959.

SCRIBNER'S Book. Very Good. FIRST. A VERY GOOD FIRST NO DJ..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition Charles Scribner's Sons; New York; 1931 "A" 8vo size tan clothbound hardcover with blue title and decorations and dust jacket; 314 toned pages. The back of the dust jacket features a small photograph of the author and his biography. From jacket flap: "His stories concern love in the springtime, courting, jealousy, an accident, a lynching, old age, a death. Some of them are very short, yet the reader finds within their brevity all the flavor and mood of some American incident which, in Caldwell's hands, becomes a story - interesting, individual, authentic." Price sticker on fep. Jacket is separated into two pieces on front spine seam with edgewear and chipping, particularly to head and heel and edges; small abrasion on fep from sticker. Top and bottom of spine are bumped and the bottom of spine is frayed. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 314 pp, in publisher's brown cloth, lettering in green. Small bump to upper corner of front board, else fine, with a review slip laid in. Dust jacket has chipping to spine ends and a few tiny tears at the top edge, one chip along front fold. Original $2.50 price present on front flap. A collection of short stories, often cited as Caldwell's first "significant" book.

London: Secker, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt spine lettering. A very good (or better) copy (with a small patch of fading at the head of the spine (matching a shallow chip in the D/W). In the VERY RARE D/W priced 7s 6d net to the inside flap (as called for). The D/W is darkened to the cream spine with a shallow chip at the head (not affecting any lettering) with some foxing to the front panel. The UK first edition of this iconic title is exceedingly uncommon.

New York: Charles Scribner's, 1931. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth stamped in green. Beautiful copy in a near fine, unclipped, pictorial dust jacket, with only few minor flaws. A lovely copy of the author's first major book. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine copy of author's third book chronologically, but his first of any significance, containing many of Caldwell's most unforgettable stories. AMERICAN EARTH introduced the young writer to a wider readership, and ushered in the extraordinary success of TOBACCO ROAD (1932 ), GOD'S LITTLE ACRE (1933), etc.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Printing of this important debut, copies of which in a dust jacket this fine are seldom seen. 8vo: x,314pp. Publisher's tan cloth, lettering and decor stamped in forest green on spine and front cover, illustrated dust jacket priced $2.50. Trivial offsetting from jacket design onto spine cloth, else a Fine, fresh copy in an about Fine jacket with a few tiny nicks at crown. Hanna 563. Flora and Bain, pp. 89, 94. Caldwell's first commercially published book (his third overall). The legendary Maxwell Perkins (Fitzgerald's editor at Scribner's) helped to edit this collection of new and previously published stories of rural life, in the deep South and in Maine, with a third section made up of a long, modernist, autobiographical prose poem called The Sacrilege of Allen Kent. The book was well-received critically (according to Flora and Bain, "Although all of Caldwell's story collections contain interesting pieces, nowhere… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's, 1931. First Edition. 314 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth stamped in green. About fine copy in chipped dj. First Edition. 314 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The author's third book chronologically, but his first of any significance, containing many of Caldwell's moist unforgettable stories. AMERICAN EARTH introduced the young writer to a wider readership, and ushered in the extraordinary success of TOBACCO ROAD (1932 ), GOD'S LITTLE ACRE (1933), etc.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1931. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Light toning on both end pages and spine. Light chipping at spine crown/heel, both flap folds, and top of front/rear panels. Open tear down entire front flap fold. Scribner seal, A present on CP. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1931. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. INSCRIBED by Caldwell to Ingle Barr & dated in 1959 on front end-paper. Excellent content from the author on how he came to write the book, proclaiming it a favorite among his works. From the library of Paul Jordan Smith with his inked signature above the inscription. Near fine in very good+ dust jacket. Priceclip. Hint of shelf-soiling at lower edge of front cover. Spine on jacket mildly toned. Shallow chip at upper edge of front panel of jacket. Author's third book, a collection of stories, generally considered his breakthrough book. Signed or inscribed copies are notably uncommon. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages .