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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. 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.
Erskine Caldwell. We Are The Living. The Viking Press, New York, 1933.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The Viking Press, 1933, 264pp. First Edition Stated #125 of 250 Author SIGNED copies. Brief stories by Erskine Caldwell. Straw colored buckram with brown titles, glassine dust jacket, slipcase. A Very Good+ copy with very light wear. In a Very Good+ glassine dust jacket that is trimmed slightly short, but complete with no chips or tears. In a Very Good numbered slipcase with light wear.
Seller: John Liberati Books, Barkhamsted, CT, 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. 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.