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CALDWELL, Erskine. AMERICAN EARTH. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931.

Price: US$100.23 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: (Literatura norteamericana. Narrativa). New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. X + 314 p. 8º mayor. Tela editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Ésta con el plano posterior oxidado y con rozaduras, y con pequeñas pérdidas en bordes. Oxido en corte superior. Buen ejemplar. First edition (con A en página de copyright). En inglés.

Seller: LLIBRES del SENDERI, Barcelona, CAT, Spain

CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987). This Is the American Earth Adams, Ansel Easton,. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931.

Price: US$112.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: dj missing small pieces around edges smooth front and back book g to vg

Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.

Caldwell,Erskine. American Earth.. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1931.

Price: US$149.78 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: x,314pp. d.w. Brown cloth. d.w. sl.stained & torn. Spine of d.w. sl.peeled & splited. All edges sunend & stained. Front & rear fly leaf sl.sunned. Small spotted on title page. Margin of 22-23pp. sl.stained. 21x13.8cm. [f1007-171099]

Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan

Caldwell, Erskine. American Earth. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 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.

Seller: Walkabout Books, ABAA, Curtis, WA, U.S.A.

Caldwell, Erskine.. American Earth.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931.

Price: US$475.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Printing. A lovely Fine copy in carob brown cloth stamped in dark dull green, in a Very Good or better dustwrapper, not price-clipped, toned along spine panel, parting at rear upper spine-fold, and mild staining to verso of flaps (not affecting book at all). 314pp. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Short stories. Q10480

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Caldwell, Erskine. American Earth. Charles Scribner's, New York, 1931.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Description: 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. 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

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Caldwell, Erskine. American Earth. Charles Scribner's, New York, 1931.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: 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. Brown cloth stamped in green. About fine copy in chipped dj

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987). American Earth. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931.

Price: US$865.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 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 does he surpass the achievement of American Earth."), and Perkins urged Caldwell to try writing a novel focusing on the rural South, which Caldwell knew best. Caldwell traveled to Wrens, Georgia, and found inspiration helping his father deliver food and medical supplies to the poor tenant farmers and sharecroppers there. The result was Tobacco Road. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.

Erskine Caldwell. AMERICAN EARTH. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931.

Price: US$934.95 + shipping

Description: 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.

Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.

Caldwell, Erskine.. American Earth.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 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

Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.