Title: American Earth
Author: Caldwell, Erskine
Description: Brown cloth stamped in green; pictorial jacket. First Edition.Inscribed and signed by the author to a well-known Southern bibliographer, on the half-title: "This copy of [American Earth] signed for Stuart Wright by Erskine Caldwell April 1983". This is Caldwell's first published collection of short stories and his third book, the one immediately preceding his classic Tobacco Road. Caldwell was one of the most important and controversial authors of his time, with his stark depictions of the underclass of the rural South, and his focus on issues of race, gender and class.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: 1931
Jacket spine panel tanned and with shallow chipping at crown, a few closed tears (one tape-repaired on verso); mild mottling to cloth and light abrasions to front endpapers; near fine in about near fine jacket.
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