Tobacco Road
1949.
The Falcon Press Ltd
, London, England
The play of the same name became one of the landmarks of Broadway where it ran continuously to packed houses for over seven years and this is the resulting book that had huge sales in the US and now stands as one of the great classics in American literature with the New york Tribune referring to his characters as the 'new American primitives, painted in the tradition of Mark Twain'. It is about poverty and desperation plus isolation in US communities trying to farm in the worst possible locations of water restricted near-desert. ie the American dustbowl. It shares some similarities with Steinbeck's 'Grapes Of Wrath' and 'Cannery Row'.
$27.00
Specifications
| Author | Caldwell, Erskine |
| Illustrator | Nil |
| Publisher | The Falcon Press Ltd |
| Place Published | London, England |
| Year Published | 1949 |
| Date of First Edition or Edition Notes |
Third Impression |
| Size | 8vo (Octavo) |
| Chapters | XVIII |
| Pages | 180pp |
Condition Report
| Cover | Good Condition - The boards in orange cloth have a gold title on the still very firm, sound spine that is a little pale from light exposure. The corners remain sharp without bumping too though there is trivial bruising of the spine ends. The illustrated price-clipped dustwrapper is still bright in yellow and brown with a tobacco leaf and a reclining man under the title . Unlike the book it has minor chipping and wear at all corners but mainly on the spine extremities with a closed two cms tear on the front cover and it is now protected in removable clear archival covering as well.- With Dust Wrapper |
| Overall | Good Condition - Internally the pages are clean, unmarked and undamaged, devoid of foxing with no margin cracking or random notations. |