Crazy Man
by Maxwell Bodenheim
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
1st edition. Good HC, no DJ. Orange cloth over boards, green letters. Scuffed/lightly soiled covers & spine; sunned on spine and at cover edges; rubbed at spine tail w/ small splits; lightly rubbed at spine head and at fore corners; tightly bound, but front hinge somewhat weakened and back hinge apparently (neatly) repaired; owner name (Sam Kamensky, May 7, 1925) on front end paper; bookplate on front end paper, Harry M. Justiz (attorney and victim of HUAC witchhunts). Author's second novel. Bodenheim was a very influential realist writer, considered the quintessential American Bohemian. His third novel was suppressed as pornography resulting in a successful major legal battle by publisher Horace Liveright that helped finish the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and similar censorship groups. 12mo, 238 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Madden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13647
- Title
- Crazy Man
- Author
- Maxwell Bodenheim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- BOHEMIAN, WRITERS, AUTHORS, AVANT-GARDE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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- Cloth
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- New
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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