New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 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..... more
![Item #BB2319 A Message for Genevieve. A Brief Story [Signed]. Erskine CALDWELL](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2319.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1632401249)
Mount Vernon, Maine: [Privately Printed] at the Old Colony Press, 1933. Limited Edition. Stiff Wrappers. No. 71 of 100 copies signed by Caldwell on half-title page and by the illustrator, Alfred Morang, in pencil on frontispiece below image. Slim foolscap 8vo (170 x 102mm): [4],11,[1] pp. Staple-bound stiff pink-brown wrappers..... more
New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this collection of 16 short stories abiout Gerogia poor whites from the author of "Tobacco Road." 8vo: 206pp. Publisher's coarsely woven slate blue cloth, spine and upper cover ruled in red and lettered in black, top edge stained slate..... more
![Item #BB2133 Tenant Farmer [Signed]. Erskine CALDWELL](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2133.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1587924926)
New York: Phalanx Press, 1935. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Caldwell's scalding indictment of tenant farming and sharecropping in the Depression-era South, reserving especial contempt for Eugene Talmadge, then governor of Georgia. Signed by Caldwell on the title page. Slim 8vo (195 x 135mm): 30,[2]pp. Drab green stapled wrappers, upper cover..... more
New York: Viking Press, MCMXXXIII [1933]. First Printing. Hardcover. First Trade Edition (following a limited edition of 250 copies) of Caldwell's second collection of stories. 8vo: viii,264pp. Publisher's ivory cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in brown and forest green, top edge stained brown; illustrated dust jacket, by Alfred Maurer..... more