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Christ In Concrete
by DI DONATO, Pietro
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); black textured boards with red-orange topstain, titles and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 311pp. Endpapers and pastedowns slightly toned (as is nearly always the case), with a touch of rubbing to spine lettering; Near Fine. Dustjacket neatly separated at front spine-fold; unclipped, with shallow chipping, wear, and creasing to extremities, with several short tears, rubbing along joints, and a faint diagonal crease along rear panel; Good. A labor novel chronicling the life of an Italian bricklayer in the slums of New York, preceded by an excerpt appearing in Esquire Magazine in 1937. Basis for the 1949 British film noir Give Us This Day, directed by Edward Dmytryk. HANNA 992. COAN p.202.
Synopsis
An uncompromising yet beautiful portrait of the life of Italian immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1920s, Christ in Concrete is the story of a twelve-year-old boy who must support his family after his father's untimely death.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18260
- Title
- Christ In Concrete
- Author
- DI DONATO, Pietro
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1939
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Fiction; Great Depression;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Chipping
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- Spine
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- New
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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