Portland, ME: Falmouth Book House, 1936. First printing, trade issue. Large octavo (25.5cm.); original cloth boards, titled in red on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 57pp; 8 leaves of plates after wood engravings by Ralph Frizzell. A square, tight copy in the original dustwrapper, a bit toned on spine and extremities, price clipped, with a few short closed tears at extremities; Very Good.

First separate printing of this novella that first appeared in Caldwell's first story collection, American Earth (1931). A spare, rather bleak autobiographical tale, perhaps suited to the public's mood in 1936. There was a simultaneous limited issue of 300 signed copies.

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Bookseller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 52703
Title: The Sacrilege of Alan Kent
Author: CALDWELL, Erskine; Ralph Frizzell, illus
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Falmouth Book House
Place of Publication: Portland, ME
Date Published: 1936
Bookseller catalogs: Modern Fiction; The South; Social Fiction; Illustrators; Great Depression;

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Dustwrapper: Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...