[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of TOBACCO ROAD, 1932, in dustwrapper, Clifford Waller Barrett's copy

[Charles Agvent]

CALDWELL, Erskine. TOBACCO ROAD. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
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 a bright, Near Fine dustwrapper.         $2000.00

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