POOR FOOL (Boxing, Violence & Murder in the South) by CALDWELL, ERSKINE - (first PB 1953),

Louisiana State University Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Signet, 1953. Softcover. Good. #53, 1st thus, pages have browned

Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State University Press. 1994. First Edition Thus. Softcover. 0807119474 . As New with no dust jacket; Voices of the South; Trade PB; 131 pages .

NOVEL SELECTION, , (first PB 1953), . 52, , very good , creases, (SOUTHERN NOVEL), , paperback,

NOVEL SELECTION, , (first PB 1953), . 52, , very good -fine, , reading crease, (SOUTHERN NOVEL), , paperback,

NOVEL SELECTION, , (first PB 1953), . 52, , near fine, , (SOUTHERN NOVEL), , paperback,

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Rariora Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover - as published. #364 of 1000 numbered copies. 8vo, 188 pp, unopened, uncut copy, illustrated in b/w by Alexander Couard. Spine & small portion of front board lightly sunned, very minor rubbing tail of spine, else a near fine copy without dj. .

New York: Rariora Press. Very Good+. 1930. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Some slight signs of ageing on the spine. ; Number 901 of first limited edition of one thousand copies. Tight binding, and clean, unmarked text. Bright gilt lettering on the front board. Author once owned a bookstore in Maine. ; Wood block print; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 188 pages .

New York: Rariora Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1930. 0 To Be Determined. First Edition. First, Limited Edition (No. 847 of only 1000 copies). Publisher's full blue buckram, gilt lettering on spine and cover, all edges deckle. Illustrated with full-page woodcuts and head and tail-pieces by Alexander Couard. This limited printing comprised the entire edition of Caldwell's second book; there was no trade edition. Published in 1930, Poor Fool was Erskine Caldwell's second novel. Like most of his fiction, it revolves around a gallery of grotesque characters motivated by the basest urges. The novel's central figure is Blondy Niles, a down-and-out boxer who exists at the very fringes of society. The garish nighttime world of bars and prostitutes, con men and petty crimes is the milieu in which he moves. When he is approached by Salty Banks to be an unwitting fall guy in a rigged boxing scheme, a calamitous chain of events is set in motion, and death is the… Read More