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Condizione: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Limited edition, Octavo hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A bound, ex-library copy the July - December 1932 issues of The American Magazine, volume 114. It includes a title and author index bound in the front. Contents include stories and Depression Era articles by Archibald Rutledge (You Can't Put Out the Sun - July), Alexander Woolcott (I'm Glad I'm Absent Minded - July), Dashiell Hammett (2 Sam Spade stories - A Man Called Spade - July, Too Many Have Lived - October), Octavus Roy Cohen (The Knight's Errand - July, Hearts and Clubs - August, Grandstand Stuff - November), Amelia Earhart (Flying the Atlantic - August), Clarence Budington Kelland (Something to Tell the Folks Who Can't See Where Business is Going - August, Scattergood Meets a Gangster - September, The Touchstone: A Scattergood Story - October, Scattergood Tries an Experiment - November, Red Fingernails - December), Beverley Smith (The Man With the Flashlight Mind, The Story of Walter Lippmann - September), Walter Lippmann (Good Men Wanted - September), Tom Gill (Guardians of the Desert parts 1 - 4 - September - December), Kathleen Norris (Walls of Gold, parts 1 - 3, October - December), I A R Wylie (Pilgrimage - November) General John J Pershing (The Thing We Need Today - December), P G Wodehouse (A Cagey Gorilla - December), and others. Light rubbing to the spine. The front covers are present but the back covers have been removed, The top margin has been trimmed slightly, at times affecting the text at the top of the front cover. The library markings are fairly unobtrusive. They include "Mercer University Library - Macon, GA" stamps on the front covers and a Mercer University Library plate on the front paste down. Occasional neat tape repairs to a few pages. Occasional soil spots in the margins. However the interior is very clean and crisp overall. The binding is solid and tight. A very good copy with stories and serial installments by prominent authors, most notably Dashiell Hammett and P G Wodehouse, and a nice selection of Depression Era articles. A heavy, oversize book that will require additional postage. John E Sheridan, Hatden Hayden, Diana Thorne, Penrhyn Stanlaws (covers), Charles S Chapman, William Auerbach-Levy, Joseph Clement, George Howe, Clayton Knight, C W Massaguer, Floyd M Davis, Ralph Pullen Coleman, Paul Meylan, Pruett Carter and others (illustratore).…

#48 of a limited edition of 650 copies (per publisher's rear colophon). [10], 134, [3] pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. No dust jacket as issued. Blue cloth well rubbed with some staining; shallow cloth loss at frayed spine ends; board corners lightly bumped with slight wear to rear board's bottom corner. Ink markings on front endpapers and at bottom of page 21; past owner's ink signature and personal doodle at half title page with ink markings at page center of which one intrudes upon the title lettering; a few scattered small stains to leaves which, overall, remain clean. Binding is firm. A good+ copy of an uncommon book. Greenville, Mississippi's Levee Press, led by principals Hodding Carter (1907-1972), Ben Wasson (1899-1982), and Kenneth Haxton (1919-2002), may have only issued four titles (with a combined "official" print run of 2635 copies) in seven years but the fine press is placed among the elite in American publishing history. This posthumous William Alexander Percy title was The Levee Press' final title preceded by THE MERCHANT OF BRISTOL by Shelby Foote in 1947, MUSIC FROM SPAIN by Eudora Welty in 1948, and NOTES ON A HORSETHIEF by William Faulkner in 1950. Title page and section title page silhouette tree decorations by Newcomb College-trained Greenville, Mississippi artist Elizabeth Calvert who may have found her inspiration for her illustrations in the cypress tress that adorn the banks of Lake Washington approximately twenty-five miles south of her hometown.…