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New York and London : Harper & Brothers, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Inscribed by author. FIRST EDITION, 1929. Black cloth with red lettering and design. Author's gift inscription on front free end paper. Previous owner's name written inside front cover. Includes signed correspondence from the author (on letterhead from Columbia University in the City of New York). 408pp. Some worming along rear hinge. Full refund if not satisfied.
Can't Get a Red Bird (First Edition) by Dorothy Scarborough - 1929
by Dorothy Scarborough
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Can't Get a Red Bird (First Edition)
by Dorothy Scarborough
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "Inscribed for Mrs. White / by / Dorothy Scarborough / May 1930." Very Good in a Very Good plus, price-clipped example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket is lightly toned at the spine, with some light chipping along the top edge, no titling affected.
An important proletarian novel set in the world of cotton-growers in Texas, the locale for most of the author's fiction. Scarborough was also a noted folklorist, known especially for her field work in the world of folk music from the southern highlands of North Carolina and in Texas. Her other novels include "The Wind," a feminist classic that was the basis for the famous 1928 silent film. The only jacketed copy with have ever seen. Hanna 3134.
An important proletarian novel set in the world of cotton-growers in Texas, the locale for most of the author's fiction. Scarborough was also a noted folklorist, known especially for her field work in the world of folk music from the southern highlands of North Carolina and in Texas. Her other novels include "The Wind," a feminist classic that was the basis for the famous 1928 silent film. The only jacketed copy with have ever seen. Hanna 3134.
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Royal Books, Inc.
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- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1929
- Keywords Literature | Social Justice, Radical, and Proletarian Interest | Texas
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Can't Get A Red Bird (Inscribed First Edition)
by Dorothy Scarborough
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Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States
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CAN'T GET A RED BIRD.
by Scarborough, Dorothy
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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- Used - Very good in black cloth with red lettering. Relatively minor edgewear to the boards, a little fading on the spine, line on bac
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Ione, California, United States
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New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1929.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very good in black cloth with red lettering. Relatively minor edgewear to the boards, a little fading on the spine, line on back cover, but overall a tight and straight copy.. First printing. Novel about the life of tenant farmers in Texas and the plight of the farmer in general by this Texas-born folklorist and novelist. A significant association copy as this is INSCRIBED by the author on the title page 'For Mr. Alexander Legge, with appreciation of his services to the American farmer" and dated July 29, New York City. Legge was President of International Harvester from 1922 until his death in 1933, chairman of the Federal Farm Board under President Hoover, and one of the founders and principal contributors to the Farm Foundation in 1933.
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