Calico Shoes And Other Stories by Farrell, James T - 1934

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1934. 1st edition. Cloth. Good. 1st edition. (1934). A Good copy/ 8vo., 303 pp. Bound in blue cloth with title on tan cloth labels. Light to moderate wear and soiling. The preliminary pages are lightly foxed/browning. Text block edges starting to fox.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1934. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. 303 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price to front flap. Blue boards with beige labels to spine and front stamped in black. Dust jacket is lightly chipped and rubbed along edges with general toning, more heavily along spine. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Spotting to preliminaries and, more sparsely, to first 30 pages, but otherwise pages clean and unmarked.

New York: Vanguard Press, 1934. First edition. 303 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth with titles in black on cream cloth onlays to spine and front board. Fine copy in very good blue pictorial dust jacket (some wear, fading to spine, back panel toned and rippled). Design by Ernest Reichl. First edition. 303 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

E-051: The Vanguard Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1934. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Vanguard Press. 1934. 303 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Ernst Reichl DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in blue cloth with paper label titles present to the spine and the front board. No ownership marks present. Foxing present to the fore-edge. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Vignettes of the South Side of Chicago. Raw, shocking, and overpowering, the sixteen short stories set in sleazy hotels, ramshackle flats, reeking taverns, smoky poolrooms, busy streets, and garbage-strewn alleyways, tells it as it is in the nation's second largest city. ? Includes: Helen, I Love You. --The Scarecrow. --Looking 'Em Over. --The Buddies. --A Front-page Story, --Just Boys. --Honey, We'll Be Brave. --A Casual Incident. --Clyde. --Jim O'Neill. --Twenty-five Bucks. --Mary… Read More

The Vanguard Press, 1934. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. The Vanguard Press; New York, 1934. Hardcover. A Very Good, blue cloth binding with tan label and black lettering on front board and spine, binding sturdy and intact, deckle fore-edge, top text block edge stained brown with few blemishes, discoloration top spine buckram, rub mark bottom text block corner, bit of age toning to pages, text block edges a bit pulpy, spine buckram starting to separate from backing material, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, bit of edge/corner wear with few tears and chips along edges, small soiled spot top rear panel, sunning to panels/flaps/spine and verso, chipped top spine edge, Mylar protected, Dust wrapper. A nice, overall clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]. 303pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xiv],303pp. Small, faint damp mark to lower left corner of front cover, else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket designed by Ernst Reichl is unclipped (priced $2.50), with a hint of sunning to spine and some mild wear to extremities; Near Fine. Attractive copy of this collection of short stories set in Chicago, full of the same grim realism found in Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy. The stories first appeared in the pages of The American Mercury, The New Masses, Dynamo, Story, A Year Magazine, Pagany, Midland, and Best Short Stories of 1933, and are gathered here for the first time.

New York: Vanguard Press, 1934. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in an about near fine dustwrapper, lightly worn, with the spine sunned and the spinal extremities reinforced. Curiously, on the front flap the publisher has warned: "We caution collectors of first editions not to overlook this title," which considering the scarcity of this title, they apparently did. A nice copy of an uncommon book.

Vanguard, 1934. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in near fine jacket. $2.50 on flap. Light fade to spine of jacket.Extremely Rare Book.Well Preserve Copy.Excellent Copy.Ink name under front flap..

New York: The Vanguard Press, (1934). First edition. INSCRIBED, "To Sadie L. Cohn James T. Farrell." Very good copy in edgeworn dust jacket with a chip at the top of the spine, some age darkening, and tape repair/reinforcement on verso.

New York: The Vanguard Press, (1934). First edition. INSCRIBED but we don't not know to whom. Long, hand written, filling pastedown and front end paper, also signed on next blank. "Here are some of my first stories, written between 1927 and 1934." then discussion about the titles of the stories including "H. L. Mencken bought "Helen, I love you." Hard to read in some places. Very good copy in edgeworn dust jacket with a chip at the top of the spine, some age darkening, and tape repair/reinforcement on verso.