[Rarebooks] FS: The Barrett copy of Erskine Caldwell's TOBACCO ROAD, 1932, in dustwrapper

[Charles Agvent]

CALDWELL,  Erskine. TOBACCO ROAD. New York: Scribner  1932.  First
Edition.  Caldwell's sensational novel explores the lives of the  poor
and  degenerate Lester family of Georgia's cotton region. Made  into a
very  successful  play in 1933 and a much less successful  and  rather
bowdlerized  film in 1941, it is the work with which Caldwell is  most
identified.  This is Clifford Waller Barrett's copy with his bookplate
tipped  to  the front free endpaper. Barrett's collection of  American
Literature  at the University of Virginia is one of the finest in  the
world.  An  old  Hartford  bookseller's   small  ticket  on  the  rear
pastedown.  Very  slightly  cocked  but  a  tight,  bright  copy  in a
well-preserved  dustwrapper with mild sunning to the spine which has a
fingernail-sized  chip  at the upper right corner affecting the  right
half  of  the letter "o" in "Tobacco" and just extending to the  front
panel which has a tiny closed tear at the bottom. Near Fine in bright,
Near Fine dustwrapper.                                        $1500.00

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