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Anthem
Rand, AynLondon: Cassell and Company, 1938. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 147pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] in original mottled red cloth. Recased. Major restoration to jacket; label removed from front board; ink stamps washed from free endpaper, foxing to front matter and rear endpapers. In custom red cloth clamshell case. Good / good. Item #56646 A first edition of Ayn Rand's dystopian fiction novella, one of her earliest works.
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The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life
Thurman, WallaceNew York: Macaulay Company, 1929. First edition, inscribed presentation copy. Hardcover. SIGNED. 262pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Brown cloth with title stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. Professionally recased and rebacked, with the majority of the original spine overlaid. Covers professionally cleaned and polished. Corners of covers skillfully restored. Hinges discreetly reinforced. In a custom made clamshell. Very good. Item #60859 A nice presentation copy from Wallace Thurman (1902-1934), who was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. This copy is inscribed to silent film actor and film director James Cruze. Cruze (1884-1942), a giant in the day of silent films, was born in Ogden, Utah, to a Mormon family. He is responsible for directing or producing close to 100 films, including his masterpiece The Covered Wagon. Unfortunately, Cruze did not adapt well to the advent of sound in the film industry, and he died with just a handful of dollars in his pocket. In Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, American Depression, the author Jani Scandura quotes Wallace Thurman as writing the following to playwright and producer William Jourdan Rapp in June 1929: "'Met James Cruze, who is quite anxious to see a script of Harlem..'" Scandura goes...
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