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Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1932.
Price: US$47.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932 241 pp. described on title page as "in arrangement with Viking Press," and on copyright page as "Charles Scribner & Sons B." In excellent shape, text is clean, tight, unmarked, a little yellowed. Orange cloth boards with silver stamping are intact and undamaged. Book is slightly cocked. An early reprint from the year of original publication. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Catron Grant Books, Rio Rancho, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Fine in burnt orange cloth covered boards with gilt title labels on the spine and the same on the front board with embossed lines on the front board. A small octavo measuring 7 3/8" by 5 1/8". In a fine unblemished, unclipped dust jacket with the "FEL" logo on the rear flap. Both the book and its jacket are within a fine paper covered slip case with a paper label of the front panel of the dust jacket and a black and white photograph of the author from the rear panel of the jacket. Laid-in at the front of the book is the publisher's note card regarding the first printing of this title. This is the First Edition Library's exact (facsimile) reproduction of the first edition of the book. 241 pages of text. Facsimile First Edition Library Reprint.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1932.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: . . . . First edition. 4to. Hardcover. Brown cloth; no dust jacket. Good condition. First edition, with "A" on copyright page. Covers soiled, spine faded, title still legible; Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover; contents clean, binding sturdy and tight. 241 pp.
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
CALDWELL,Erskine. TOBACCO ROAD. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932.
Price: US$134.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo, 241 pages, brown cloth, severely cocked - as seems to have happened with this title (from too many readers??) The Georgia back country is the squalid setting for this novel ( later a popular play ) of the degraded family of sharecropper Jeeter Lester, and his sick wife, Ada. There is no proper plot, but an episodic chain of events" - Thesuarus of Book Digests.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 241 pages. Light soil to cloth; spine spotted and faded. Small ownership stamp to front pastedown, and name in pencil to first white blank. Binding is sound. Scribner A present.
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
Erskine Caldwell.. Tobacco Road.. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York., 1932.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The book is bound in decorative brown boards with Gil boxed brown letters on the front cover & spine-lightly faded. There is light wear on the spine tips, along the edges & on the cover corners. There are 11 lines of ink owner information inside the front cover. Endpapers are green. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. Both the Scribner's seal & "A" on the verso with the date 1932 on the tile page & verso.
Seller: Richard Peterson-Bookseller, Kingston, ON, Canada
Erskine Caldwell. Tobacco Road. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A hardcover in brown paper boards. With 241 pages. A first edition with Scribner's 'A' at the colophon. Binding is slightly skewed, previous owner's bookplate at the front free endpaper, a pair of numbers stamped at front endpapers. Clean pages and text, free of marks or writing.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing with 1932 on the full title page, the Scribner's seal on the copyright page, and the capital letter A on the title page. Bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown, previous owner was Frederick W. Skiff (1867-1947) , a major American book collector who amassed one of the most important private libraries in the USA. He wrote two books about book collecting and founded the Acorn Club. After his death, his library was auctioned by Butterfield and Butterfield in San Francisco, 800 of his books were purchased by Doheny, becoming part of the Estelle Doheny collection of American literature which was eventually auctioned off by Christie's for $38,000,000. This book is in NF condition. Spine and front cover titles bright, no foxing at all, gentle bumping to bottom corners. Book now protected in plastic covers. No dust jacket. Ships same or next business day very well protected in a box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pages
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932.
Price: US$1700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. First Edition with Scribner's A and seal on colophon. Gilt-stamped burnt-orange cloth over boards, fore-edge deckled, 241 pages. Corners and spine ends bumped and lightly worn, offsetting from previously inserted paper on front end papers, final three end papers in back of book have bent corners, otherwise very good condition. In original dust jacket that is bumped and worn at corners and spine ends, has chipping along top edge on back flap, lightly toned and rubbed at fore-edges, preserved in a Brodart jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 0 oz. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 014204.
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.
Price: US$1703.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's orange cloth binding stamped in blind and titled in gilt. Very Good with light lean to spine, soiling and light wear to cloth at edges. Pages toned, light soiling to several preliminary pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine and edges, large chip at head and shallow chipping at the tail, tape burn from tape (now removed) on rear verso at head of spine and flaps. A serviceable copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932.
Price: US$4250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 241pp. Burnt orange cloth, title over gilt on spine and front cover. Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Solid text block, dust remnants to top edge, mylar dust jacket remnant along bottom edge of covers, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.50 retail price to front flap, tape repairs to verso to reinforce folds. Light wear to corners. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. (Bruccoli & Clark II: 87) Signed on the half-title "To Ralph D. Hartman / with all the / good wishes of / Erskine Caldwell." Hartman's bookplate affixed to front pastedown.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
CALDWELL, Erskine.. Tobacco Road.. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932, 1932.
Price: US$4810.36 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, of this controversial American classic, the basis for the Broadway show which ran from 1933 to 1941 (then the longest-running play on record) and loosely adapted into the 1941 film version directed by John Ford. This title, Caldwell's third book, was included in the Modern Library's list of the Best 100 Novels in the English Language. Calder Willingham, another Southern novelist, stated: "A good case can be made that the inventor of Tobacco Road - far more than William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Robert Penn Warren, or any other Southern writer one can think of - is the true mythmaker of post-bellum Southern literature" (quoted in McDonald, p. 206). Robert L. McDonald, The Critical Response to Erskine Caldwell, 1997. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in blind on gilt, blind road motif on front cover, light blue endpapers, top edge brown, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Cloth bright, nick at head of spine, one corner gently bumped; jacket spine toned and rubbed at head, else bright, unclipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Caldwell's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For with the best wishes of Erskine Caldwell July 13th 1935." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the spine extremities. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. Unsentimentally realistic, this classic novel is a reflection of the effects of poverty on tenant farmers in the South during the Great Depression. It focuses on the Lester family, former cotton farmers who continue to live on their ancestors' plantation even though it has long ceased to be prosperous. Jeeter and Ada Lester have 17 children, two of whom still live at home: Ellie May, their only unmarried daughter who has a cleft lip, and Dude, their youngest son who is mentally handicapped. The family's antics, while at times vile and perverse, depict the racism and moral ambiguity that existed among some impoverished Southerners at that time and represent Erskine Caldwell's critique of the failed economic system and its consequences. It was the basis for the Broadway show which ran from 1933 to 1941 (then the longest-running play on record), and adapted into the 1941 film directed by John Ford starring Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy, Dana Andrews and Ward Bond. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932.
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Caldwell's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Harry Behn with the best wishes of Erskine Caldwell M.G.M. Culver City June 10th 1933."Â The recipient, Harry Behn was a screenwriter who wrote classics such as The Big Parade and Hell's Angels. Behn collaborated with Caldwell on a screenplay (Call it Experience, p. 157). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light expert restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. Unsentimentally realistic, this classic novel is a reflection of the effects of poverty on tenant farmers in the South during the Great Depression. It focuses on the Lester family, former cotton farmers who continue to live on their ancestors' plantation even though it has long ceased to be prosperous. Jeeter and Ada Lester have 17 children, two of whom still live at home: Ellie May, their only unmarried daughter who has a cleft lip, and Dude, their youngest son who is mentally handicapped. The family's antics, while at times vile and perverse, depict the racism and moral ambiguity that existed among some impoverished Southerners at that time and represent Erskine Caldwell's critique of the failed economic system and its consequences. It was the basis for the Broadway show which ran from 1933 to 1941 (then the longest-running play on record), and adapted into the 1941 film directed by John Ford starring Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy, Dana Andrews and Ward Bond. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.