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Fante's Ask the Dust 1st ed
Fante's Ask the Dust 1st ed
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Description
Heading:
Author: Fante, John
Title: Ask the Dust
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Stackpole Sons
Date Published: [1939]
Description:

(8vo) publisher's "oatmeal" canvas cloth stamped in maroon at spine and front cover. First Edition.

First edition of the author's masterpiece, a semi-autobiographical novel and his second book. Part of "The Saga of Arturo Bandini" set in Depression-Era California; basis for the 2006 film starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek. With the illustrated bookplate of Harry Jung.

Condition
Soiling to cloth, darkening to spine, volume leaning a bit; strip from jacket flap tipped-in on front free endpaper, a bit of offsetting to endpapers, mild spotting to bottom edge; about very good.
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