The Great Big Doorstep Tapa dura - 1979

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. Part of Southern Illinois University Press's "Lost American Fiction" series, with an afterword by Eudora Welty. A REPRINT of this novel originally published in 1941 and pretty much ignored during World War II. O'Donnell's second and last novel. Near fine- (a bit of shelfwear at spine, some very light foxing spots on page edges and pastedowns) in good+ dust jacket (heavy edgewear especially at top, rubbed front panel, lightly sunned spine; fully intact and in protective jacket). See scans.. Hard Cover.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Good. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. 0809308886 . (no dust jacket) [bottom edges shelfworn to the point of some exposure of boards, spine somewhat turned; also has newly-mounted new pastedown and ffep, the latter fashioned so as to fold over the original ffep (still present), which bears labels from two literary agencies (Maxim Lieber, New York; and Phil Berg/Bert Allenberg Inc., Beverly Hills)]. The author's second (and last) novel, about a Cajun family in the Louisiana Delta country that salvages an outsized doorstep from the river, then sets about trying to procure a house of sufficient grandeur to match it, despite (or perhaps in defiance) of their own serious impoverishment. Reprinted in the "Lost American Fiction" series in 1979, with a new Afterword by Eudora Welty. .

Southern Illinois University Press. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. 384 pp. We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionaly packaged and shipped promptly. M21 .

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