SLIM de William Wister Haines

Bantam. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Mass Market Paperback edition. (Industry, Electric) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

LITTLE, BROWN & CO., BOSTON , MA, USA, 1934. 0834. Very Good/Good. TAN Cloth, 414 Pages; Dust Jacket in Mylar Protective Covering, Wear to Top & Bottom of Spine and Corners of Cover, Spine Discoloration or Fading From Sunlight. Topic, Subject and Category Keywords: FICTION ELECTRICAL .

Slim, Little Brown, 1934, first edition, 2 leaves with some light brown stains in the upper margins, else a tight, near fine copy in a vg dust-wrapper save for a near thumb-nail size chip missing from the bottom of the front dust-wrapper panel near the spine and another similar size chip at the base of the dust-wrapper spine. Illustrations and dust-wrapper art by Robert Lawson. A most uncommon book in first edition being the tale of a lineman. The author and screenwriters first book, filmed in 1937. Haines wrote screenplays of which over a dozen were successfully filmed such as THE WINGS OF EAGLES, TORPEDO RUN, BLACK LEGION, ONE MINUTE TO ZERO, THE RACKET, THE TEXANS and more. Perhaps his best know work is COMMAND DECISION.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. [very nice copy, light shelfwear, a trace of foxing on fore-edge, bookplate on front pastedown; the jacket is remarkably clean and well-preserved, with some minor wear along the top and bottom edges, slight browning to spine, and one tiny nick mid-spine]. A beautiful copy of the author's first book, SIGNED by him directly beneath his printed signature on the title page, and just above one of illustrator Robert Lawson's drawings of the title character. Haines began working as a telephone lineman during summer vacations while in college (University of Pennsylvania), and took on the work full-time upon his graduation in 1931. His experiences on that job provided fodder for his literary efforts, including his first published short stories and two novels, this one and the subsequent "High Tension" in 1937. Time Magazine said of this novel that "in celebrating his craft and the… Leer más

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. First edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Robert Lawson. Signed by the author on blank page following the copyright. Source of the 1937 Warner Bros. Film starring Henry Fonda as Slim.