A Very Good Land to Fall With: Scenes from the Life of an American Jew Unknown - 1987

Black Sparrow Pr, 1987-09-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.1100 9.1300 6.5700. Signed by the author. Cover shows minor wear. Pages with tidemarks on the bottom edges.

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Limited Numbered Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. 296 (4) pp. Signed by John Sanford and Julius Shapiro on the prelim. Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.25". Teal quarter-cloth with lettered decorative paper-covered boards. With glassine (clear) Mylar wrapper, as issued..

About this Item: Black Sparrow Pr, Santa Rosa, California, 1987. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Book is FINE. Published in paper wrappers; there are 300 cloth trade copies and 150 signed and numbered copies. This is copy 5/150. John Sanford (1904-2003) is the name of the principal character in The Water Wheel, a first novel by Julian Shapiro published in 1933. Adopting it as a pseudonym, the writer has used it ever since. Sanford/Shapiro wrote half his books after the age of 80. (Gives us old guys hope). The author published a five volume autobiography for which he was awarded The PEN Faulkner Award and the L.A. Times lifetime achievement award. Both Sanford and his wife Margarite Roberts were involved in the film industry during the McCarthy witch hunts and were subsequently blacklisted for over ten years for their left leaning actions. This book is a very interesting group of observations, conversations and scenes that take place between 1936 and the end of WWII. Book is… Leer más

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. 1st . Hardcover. fine/fine. One of 150 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author as Sanford and Shapiro. Publisher's original acetate dust jacket.