Search Results: The Heart Of the Furnace by Lambert Williams

D Appleton-Century. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (literature, fiction)

Paperback / softback. New.

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

New York: D. Appleton & Company. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1937. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 298 pages; Jacket with some soiling, rubbing and edgewear. Small dampstain on rear jacket at flap, not affecting the book. .

New York/London: D. Appleton-Century Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy, top corners slightly bumped, light age-toning and dust-soiling to edges of text block; jacket has tiny tears and very slight paper loss at several corners, a little darkening to spine panel]. "This is a deeply moving story of a friendship between two blind men -- and of the tragedy that brought death to one and life to the other. It is a story of passion and quiet tenderness, of loyalty and hate, and of a love that meant faith and belief and life to a man whose world would otherwise have been forever dark." (Short version: a woman comes between them.) The Australian-born author, per the jacket bio, was educated in England and later became the art critic for a newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa (the setting for this novel). Earlier in life he had been a playwright, but this would appear to have been his first novel; he published one more, "From… Read More

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

New York: Appleton-Century, 1937. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm). Blue cloth boards, lettered in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 298pp. Fine, tight copy in original, unclipped dustwrapper, lightly, evenly soiled, still Near Fine. Odd and uncommon working-class novel, concerning a murder and a love triangle involving two blind basket-weavers. The setting is Cape Town; the author was an Australian-born South African. There were American and British editions but no South African edition that we can find; the American edition precedes the British by a year. Not widely held in institutions, and scarce in nice condition.