GUILLOTINE PARTY; And Other Stories by / James T. Farrell
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1935. First Edition. Cloth. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY by the Author, 8vo, forest green cloth with beige labels with red borders on backstrip and front cover, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), [xii] + 305 pages. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #1837
A very early (first?) collection of Farrell's short stories set in Chicago.
RARE dust jacket with price of "$2.50" (slightly chipped at head and foot of spine) and SCARCE title. Internally clean, tight, bright (apart from slight age-toning to inner portion of the endpapers).
James T. Farrell (1904-1979) was a prolific American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for his blue-collar, Irish-Catholic Depression-era stories set in Chicago. Farrell's best known works are a trilogy about the tough, gritty, initially promising though progressively tragic life (often autobiographical) of impoverished young, Irish-Catholic Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan (1931), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment Day (1935). The series was made into a film in 1960 and tv series in 1979.
Price: $195.00