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Caldwell, Erskine. We Are the Living. New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1933.
Price: US$12.71 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1933 1st edition. Sunning and fraying on cover, separation starting on back board, fold on back ep and smaller one on last page, pages tanned, else text clean, binding tight. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Dave's Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. We Are The Living Brief Stories. Viking, New York, 1933.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: No dust jacket. Covers are foxed. Internally very good. ; Ownership signature of James Laughlin IV on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine.. We Are the Living. Brief Stories.. The Viking Press, New York, 1933.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second Printing, in same year as first. A Fine copy in off-white cloth, lacking the dustwrapper. 264pp. Q18215
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. We are the Living, Stories. Duell, Sloan And Pearce, New York, 1933.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Grey hardcover with red title on cover and spine. Edges are lightly worn with light soiling. The DJ is worn at edges with small tears at edges and small chips at corners and spine ends. The spine is faded to grey with light soiling on back cover. This is a scarce first by Duell, most firsts are ascribed to Viking,
Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. We are the Living (Signed). The Viking Press, New York, NY, 1933.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Beige cloth hardcover. No dust jacket. Cover shows signs of general use, colors somewhat faded from age. No markings or writing, clean and bright pages. Binding solid. First Edition, limited to a run of 250 copies, of which this is number 66. Signed by author (Caldwell). 264 pp. [JZ]
Seller: Book Bazaar, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Erskine Caldwell. We Are the Living. The Viking Press, New York, 1933.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With the date on the title page. Original tan cloth with brown titles in green and brown borders. A collection of stories along the themes of the author's famed TOBACCO ROAD and GOD'S LITTLE ACRE. Clean, unmarked and bright. A facsimile dust jacket is available; please inquire.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. We Are the Living. Brief Stories.. New York Viking 1933., 1933.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 1 1/2" piece lacking from spine of d.j. Book very good. 1st edition. Binding is Cloth.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
CALDWELL, Erskine. We Are The Living (Signed Limited Edition). The Viking Press, New York, 1933.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 264 pages. Number 7 from an edition of 250 copies. A collection of twenty short stories from the author of the classic "Tobacco Road" and numerous other books. A clean and tight near fine copy in cloth boards with top edge gilt. Lacking the dust jacket and slipcase. Signed by Caldwell on the limitation page.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. We Are the Living. Viking, New York, 1933.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Viking, 1933 264 pp. Text is clean, tight, unmarked lightly yellowed. Beige cloth boards are clean and bright, bumped at extremities. DJ is chipped, bits missing top and bottom of spine, quite yellowed. Price not clipped. First Trade. Cloth. Very Good/Fair.
Seller: Catron Grant Books, Rio Rancho, NM, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. We Are the Living. New York: The Viking Press, 1933.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Number 138 of 250 copies; signed by the author on the limitation page. Octavo bound in mustard-colored cloth, in publisher-issued slipcase. No DJ. Condition: slipcase is in poor condition being split at seams & lacking top panel; book itself shows minor age-darkening at spine; large bookplate of previous owner on 1st free endpaper; else near fine in poor slipcase. 264 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. We are the Living. First Edition in dust Jacket. 1933. Viking, New York, 1933.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Original cloth, very good plus to near fine, in very good dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
CALDWELL, Erskine.. We Are the Living. Brief Stories.. The Viking Press, New York, 1933.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 264 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Some light foxing to the cloth; light offset shadows to the front endsheets from laid-in clippings; tight and sound in a jacket with a sunned spine and very slight edge wear.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. We are the Living. The Viking Press, New York, 1933.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: a clean and bright NF/F copy in a Good but toned dust jacket with light wear to upper spine tip and the price of $2.00 intact on the front flap. An attractive copy. Both binding and text block are rock solid, tight, clean, and unmarked, AAA all the way. The jacket has done its job well in protecting the book, but in the process has suffered substantial toning and very light edgewear but looking good in mylar Brodart. Enough said of offerings which speak loudly for themselves. Acquire, enjoy, and share what the self-actualized author has discovered in his extensive intellectual travels to prepare this very informative writing for public edification. Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item of 264 living pages. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a permanent character lacking in transitory electronic renderings.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Erskine Caldwell. We Are the Living [Signed Limited Edition]. The Viking Press, New York, 1933.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: The Viking Press, 1933. Limited First Edition, signed by the author and numbered 137 of 250 copies on tipped-in limitation page at front. Octavo; viii, 264pp. Publisher's mustard cloth with brown and green rules and lettering, housed in brown paper-covered slipcase with "137" on spine panel. Top edge gilt. Boards are square and sharp, with spine cloth very slightly dulled. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase is sturdy and solid with light shelfwear. Caldwell's second collection of short stories, published a year after his novel Tobacco Road.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. WE ARE THE LIVING. Viking Press, New York, NY, 1933.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: Viking Press. Good plus condition-Signed-cover soiled/No Dustjacket. 1933. #229 of 250. 8vo., 264 pp. . Good plus condition-Signed-cover soiled/No Dustjacket
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
CALDWELL, Erskine. We Are The Living (Signed Limited Edition). The Viking Press, New York, 1933.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 264 pages. Number 23 from an edition of 250 copies. A collection of twenty short stories from the author of the classic "Tobacco Road" and numerous other books. A clean and tight near fine copy in cloth boards with an attractive bookplate to the front pastedown and a tiny vintage bookseller sticker to the rear pastedown that has offset to the rear free endpaper and in a very good glassine dust jacket with much of the spine missing and some other wear and in a very good plus slipcase that has some light wear. Signed by Caldwell on the limitation page. A lovely copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
CALDWELL, Erskine. We Are The Living [Limited First Edition]. The Viking Press, New York, 1933.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: One of 250 signed copies. Octavo (19.5cm); orange-tan cloth, with titling and rule stamped in brown and green on spine and front panel; slipcase; top edge gilt; 264pp. Number 171 of 250 copies, signed by Caldwell on the limitation page. Very fine copy in slightly worn but complete publisher's slipcase, with matching number in white on spine panel. Caldwell's second volume of short fiction, collecting twenty stories ranging in setting from North to South, concerned (according to Coan) "chiefly with the sex impulses of the characters." COAN p.52.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine.. We Are The Living. Brief Stories.. The Viking Press, New York, 1933.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition, #151/250 copies, Numbered and SIGNED by Caldwell ob a preliminary colophon, bound in warm wheat colored buckram, stamped in brown and green, top edge gilt, in publisher's cellophane dustwrapper, in publisher's brown paper covered slipcase. Book is About As New (slight discoloration to one lower corner of last two leaves), with shrunken acetate split near crown, slipcase in excellent condition with just a little wear to one open edge. 264pp. A superior copy. Q11719
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
CALDWELL, ERSKINE. WE ARE THE LIVING. , 1933.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: CALDWELL, Erskine. WE ARE THE LIVING. New York: Viking Press, 1933. First trade edition, signed by Caldwell. 8vo. Beige cloth, slightly darkened on spine; rear hinge starting. Overall very good, in dust jacket sunned on spine, nicked at crown and edges.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. We are the Living. The Viking Press, New York, 1933.
Price: US$263.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. First edition. Oatmeal coloured cloth boards with lettering and accents in brown and green. Cloth a little darkened at the edges and spine, bookseller ticket to front paste-down, clean throughout and bright, the binding tight and square. The dust jacket price clipped, spine faded, with a small black ding around the illustrated lower panel, with very light edge-wear and a few short closed tears, but in all, a very good copy, in the very attractive dust jacket.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987). We Are the Living. Viking Press, New York, 1933.
Price: US$274.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Trade Edition (following a limited edition of 250 copies) of Caldwell's second collection of stories. 8vo: viii,264pp. Publisher's ivory cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in brown and forest green, top edge stained brown; illustrated dust jacket, by Alfred Maurer, priced $2.50; original wraparound promotional band with several closed tears. An excellent copy, top stain slightly faded, mild sunning to upper board top edge, else Fine, square and tight, and probably unread; Near Fine or better jacket, lightly edge-worn, spine and flap folds moderately sunned, as is promotional band. Coan, p. 43. Flora and Bain, p. 94. In the wake of Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, as Caldwell's popularity grew, he became more successful at selling short fiction to popular magazines of the day. Capitalizing on that popularity, Viking collected in this volume twenty short stories, ranging in setting from North to South and "mostly concerned with the sexual impulses of the characters." (Coan) It was published to "overwhelmingly positive reviews" (Literary Encyclopedia), and according to Flora and Bain, "Although all of his [Caldwell's] story collections contain interesting pieces, nowhere does he surpass the achievement of . . . We Are the Living . . . " (Flora and Bain) 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.
CALDWELL, Erskine. We Are the Living. Viking, New York, 1933.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, trade issue. A trifle soiled on the boards else fine in an attractive moderately spine-toned near fine dustwrapper. Author's second book published by a major publisher, and first collection of short stories.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre. Viking, New York, NY, 1933.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1933 Viking TRUE FIRST EDITION of one of Caldwell's 2 classic American works. A very RARE and excellent copy in NF/Fair condition. With a **SIGNED** Bookplate and photo laid in! The HB has black boards with bright orange printing and green and orange lines on the cover and spine. The interior is very clean, tight and unmarked. The only marks are some foxing spots on the top stain. The unclipped DJ ( $ 2.50) is in FAIR only condition and is missing the top half of the spine. Otherwise there are minor nicks and wear and we have repaired and now protected in mylar. A TRUE CLASSIC! **Bonus** Also receive the1932 Grosset & Dunlap First Thus edition of Tobacco Road in Good condition/no DJ
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987). God's Little Acre. Viking Press, New York, 1933.
Price: US$1624.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing of Caldwell's finest novel, combining a powerful story with social protest and experimental narrative techniques. First Edition (so stated). 8vo (189 x 130mm): [6],303,[1]pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gold and green, top edge stained gold, other edges rough-trimmed,title page in maroon and black; Illustrated dust jacket priced $2.50. About Fine, with just a hint of fraying to spine ends, but square and tightly bound, the pages virtually pristine, without a trace of foxing. The lightly toned and dust-soiled dust jacket presents as Near Fine or better after skillful restoration to spine crown (not involving lettering or design). Blanck, p. 94 (erroneously reporting "first edition so stated on copyright page"). Coan, p.56. Hanna 564. The author's sequel (of sorts) to Tobacco Road, critiquing sharecropping and cotton farming while investigating the textile mill as an alternative for Southern workers, bringing Caldwell notoriety and fame (total worldwide sales have been estimated at more than 14 million copies, making it one of the best-selling novels of all time). "Both books were set among the poor whites of [Caldwell's] southern childhood, and both displayed a mixture of muckraking anger and grotesque sexual behavior that upset southern loyalists and northern moralists alike. Despite or because of this, . . . God's Little Acre, after a highly publicized obscenity trial, became one of Caldwell's perennial bestsellers." (ANB). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.