Search Results: little acre by caldwell

New York: Signet Books, 1955. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. near fine/none, used, color illustrated stiff paper wraps, 41st printing, 188pp. Interior clean, no marks, pages slightly toning, binding tight. Slight rubbing to wraps, no chips or tears, corners square. Signet 581

New York.: Penguin by arr. w/ Duell, Sloan & Pearce Inc., 1947. 15th printing since 1st Penguin 1946. Original author 1933 ©.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Signed by previous owner. Near fine w/ minor spine sun fade.. 1 168 p. "Complete and Unabridged". Author is Georgia-born, well-traveled, and considered a 20th century literary craftsman. This work is a "tragi-comedy of illiterate Southerners".

Grossett & Dunlap, 1933-01-01. hardcover. Very good/Fair. 8x0x8. Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket. Jacket is missing a large chip at lower right front but now protected by Brodart like archival cover. First thus.

NY: Penguin Books #581. Very Good. 1933,1947,_ovember. FIRST EDITION THUS,16pt; Sixteenth Printing. paperback. 4x6". VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK..I did not try to open book to break the spine...old glue is sometimes brittle. ; .BLACK TITLES ON WHITE SPINE STRIP.. ..Front cover banner reads"16 PRINTINGS-3,110,219 COPIES. " ..CLEAN SOLID COPY ON GENTLY TONING PAPER..; 188ps pages; Author 1x1" Photo Back Cover. & biog....Rural American Life..Humor & Tragedy.. . Back of book has several pages "Appendix to the fifth printing, etc...a trial, etc for GODS LITTLE ACRE..IN NYC.. .

Penguin Books. NY: Penguin Books, Inc. , 1946 first edition . 581 , very good - fine, unread but darker paper, Cover art by Jonas. , paperback,

NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1933 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Assumed First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Secure binding with clean pages and mild cover wear. Hardcover book with 303 pages..

First edition. Slightly worn, beautiful fiery orange cover.

GB: Pan, 1958. Film cover. "Now filmed starring Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Tina Louise" United Artists. Front endpaper is clipped. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.. 1st Thus. Paperback. VG.

Pan Books: London, 1958. First Pan printing (& 1st edition thus). Paperback original. Great Pan G148. Film tie-in with b/w still on rear cover. First published in hardcover in 1933 and made into a film in 1958. Page edges browned, light spotting to inner covers and first and last pages, a VG+ copy.

First Edition Library, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. This is a facsimile reprint published by First Edition Library. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages absent any extraneous marks. New mylar added to ensure future enjoyment. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Great Jones. First printing of paperback. VG.

N.Y., N.Y.: Signet Books, May 1958. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack . Good. 44th printing. Red (faded) tinted textblock. Spine lean. Well worn.

Book is in fair condition, due to stain on hardcover and top edges of book pages The spine has some wear at very top and bottom. Pages in book have discoloration due to age of book. No writings or markings in book.

NY: Viking, 1933. Hardcover. A facsimile first edition, published by the first edition library. Fine in a fine dust jacket (no slipcase). There is just a hint of soiling to the white part of the jacket. Laid in is a fact sheet about the book and author from the FEL.

Light toning, else contents appear unread & Unblemished in wraps displaying minor surface/edge/wear, as shown.
Published a year after "Tobacco Road" in 1933, "God's Little Acre" received enormous public attention because of its lurid, licentious content. Caldwell wrote forcefully, and sometimes comically, about issues many others writers were afraid to confront: the payments extracted for giving in to one's sexual cravings, injustices everywhere in American life in the Depression years, the power of the wealthy, the necessity of labor union as the working man's only hope for self-determination. This misadventured classic revolves around Georgian patriarch, Ty Ty Walden, who is forever grasping - alternately for the gold he thinks is to be found under his fields and for a divinity within himself. Living with Ty Ty on the farm that has ceased to be farmed, are his sexually depraved daughter, Darling Jill, his obedient sons, Buck and Shaw, and Buck's wife Griselda, a beautiful, innocent temptress who… Read More

Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy, 1962-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated first printing of illustrated edition. Very good, nice condition. Dust jacket spine has fading, cover is relatively clean. A few small tears at top spine and back edge. A nice solid copy. Book is flat, tight and clean.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1970. First edition thus. Full Leather. Near Fine. First edition thus. Full Leather. Octavo. 224pp.

The Modern Library, 1934. Hard Cover -- Good -- Creasing to spine and edge wear, no dust jacket. Dark red cloth over boards -- 303 pages -- Stated First Modern Library Edition 1934 with no prior printing noted. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good.

New York: New American Library. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1976. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 160 pp., First printing of this new edition. .

London: The Falcon Press, 1948 unclipped dust jacket by Eisner has slight dust soiling, faint chipping at tail, it is about 1 or 2mm shorter than the boards, salmon linen boards with dulled gilt titling to spine, 218pp, front hinge has linen tape, I believe this was the way it was originally bound as it still seems to be using war economy thin paper endpapers etc, (500 grams) . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Eisner. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.