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ALVAH C.BESSIE : Dwell in the Wilderness. A novel

Constable & Co. Ltd., London, 1936

First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. vii, 546pp. Dark blue smooth-weave cloth lettered in black at the spine. Cloth a little marked and lightly stained in places, with a small area of fading at the head of the backstrip where the dust wrapper is defective. A light but lengthy crease to the half-title, and a sliver of spotting to the extreme lower margin of the first dozen leaves. Very good in a fairly poor example of the dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but a with a lengthy tear to the natural rear panel-spine panel fold, several inches of loss from the head of the spine panel, a little chafing, nicking, creasing and edgewear, and several further shorter tears (although the wrapper looks considerably more respectable now housed in a removable protective covering). The uncommon first book by the American author, journalist and screenwriter. Bessie spent some years with the colony of expatriate American writers in Paris and later volunteered in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. His promising career shuddered to a halt when he was infamously imprisoned and black listed as one of the Hollywood Ten in the late 1940s, resulting into a decade-long wilderness of his own.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Poor

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