Tucker's People de Ira Wolfert - 2008-07-23

University of Illinois Press, July 1997. Paper Back. Very Good. As new but for owner inscription on first page.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York : L.B. Fischer, 1943. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 496 pages, red cloth covers with white lettering. Clean, tight copy, lacks dust jacket. Record # 407295

Hardback. New.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1944. Green cover has corners lightly bumped & rubbed, base of spine rubbed with base fade, slight marks & age tone, slight edgewear. Inside clean & tight. 1st Edition. Good/No Jacket. W. Hardback.

Victor Gollancz, 1944. 2nd Imp. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. the jacket is shelf rubbed and a bit chipped. one inscription. all pages are clear and presentable. very good copy. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Victor Gollancz, London, 1944, second impression before publication,. /Dust Jacket Included. 1944. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, 375pp, edges browning, text clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, green cloth, board corners bumped, Good condition in dustwrapper, wrapper browned, especially the spine, edges rubbed and frayed .

New York: L. B. Fischer, 1943. First edition. Top page edges a bit dusty, a little rubbing to corner tips and spine ends, spine a bit dull, a very good copy without dust jacket. (22330). Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-496 [497-498: blank], cloth. The author's first novel. A novel of crime and the numbers racket which also frames contemporary social commentary. "...the reader is confronted with a terrible, blinding vision of the whole of modern society mirrored in the microcosm of the New York Underworld. It is a tragic picture, one of the slow, relentless destruction of man's natural self by economic insecurity-of a world in which men are dehumanized and demoralized by the steady pressure of economic necessity." - book review, New York Times, 25 April, 1943 by Thomas Lyle Collins. Filmed in 1948 as Force of Evil with John Garfield. Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 141. Silver and Ward (eds.), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 105-106.… Leer más

London: Victor Gollancz, 1944. Hardcover without jacket. First UK printing. 375pp. Two or three very minor marks on boards; external corners are slightly bumped; a little wear to spine lettering. Light foxing on page block and endpapers. Crease on front pastedown (near-imperceptible from exterior). Pages are clean and sound. TS. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Good. Used.

New York: L. B. Fischer, 1943. Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. First Edition.. Book has modest wear to corners and light soiling and is the first issue. First issue DJ has price clipped, soiling, edgewear and is missing approx. 1. 5 " off the head of the spine. Scarce in the first issue dustjacket..