LITERATURE AND MORALITY
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1946. First Edition. Cloth. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, beige cloth with green lettering on spine and "JF" on cover, Preface by the Author, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with black field and scarlet polygons surrounding title and author's name, xv + 304 pages. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #1840
PRESENTATION COPY by Author of a SCARCE early collection of Farrell's short stories. The SECOND collection of Farrell's short stories set in Chicago.
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.
Internally clean and tight. SCARCE dust jacket (unclipped) with a few chips and tears to extremities.
Price: $85.00