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F.O.B. Detroit by Smitter, Wessel - 1938

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F.O.B. Detroit by Smitter, Wessel - 1938

F.O.B. Detroit

by Smitter, Wessel

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New York: Harper. 1938. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Boards are foxed on front, back and spine, otherwise very good in very good- dust jacket with small chips at spine ends and short tears at top edge. This novel had the honor of being published as a Harper "Find" whose jacket rear panel boasts, "But don't get the idea that F.O.B. Detroit is another proletarian novel." Shades of Walter B. Rideout's discussion of Grapes of Wrath in his The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 340 pp .
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  • Edition First Edition; First Printing
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Harper
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1938
  • Keywords Radical, Radical Novel

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Harper & Brothers, 1938-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fair hardcover, no dustcover. Text unmarked. Pages are tanned. Covers show edge wear with rubbings/scuffing and bumped corners. Cover has dark brown markings on edges and spine. Spine edge wear. Hinges cracked but binding intact. First Edition.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1939. Reprint. 309 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Binding is shaky, pages slightly loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight staining overall.
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1938. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 340 p. 21 cm. Tan cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Some wer to jacket edges, stain on rear panel. A little soiling to cloth underneath.
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Harper & Bros., 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition stated. 8vo in buff cloth, titles in red and black. Binding tight and square, modest shelf wear. The dustjacket is not price-clipped, and has the slightest bit of rubbing at the corners and spine ends.
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NY. Good in Good dust jacket; Cloth; Harper & Bro. Pub; 1938; First Edition. Dust jacket good, chipping to edges, several small tears. Jacket art by Cobblsdick. Grey cloth with black titles to spine and front board. Good, front hinge cracked. Bookplate of Hazel Pingree Mills who was the daughter of former Detroit mayor Hazen S. Pingree. First edition, 340 pages. Decorative end papers. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall .
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F.O.B. DETROIT

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F.O.B. DETROIT, Harpers, 1938, first edition, light soiling to the spine, else near fine in vg+ Cobbledick dust-wrapper with some light wear and a shallow chip missing from the head of the dust-wrapper spine. Love among the auto plants. Uncommon. The apparent source novel for the film Racing for the Sun.
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Used - Beige cloth. Near Fine, in Fine pictorial unclipped dust jacket by Cobbledick. Small previous owner's stamp
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New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938. First edition. 340 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Beige cloth. Near Fine, in Fine pictorial unclipped dust jacket by Cobbledick. Small previous owner's stamp. First edition. 340 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A Harper "Find" novel, "An unforgettable Novel" of Russ, a lumberjack who takes a job in an auto factory so he can afford an outboard motor and a clam digger's shack. Made into a lighter movie in the 1941 by William Wellman entitled Reaching for the Sun fstarring Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew and Eddie Bracken.
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