Wilson Wright William Reitzel (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd printing. (no dust jacket) [worn copy, soiling to top edge, all corners bumped to some degree; text from jacket flaps glued to front and rear pastedowns, one-time owner's name and date/place of purchase scrawled in pencil on ffep]; Agrarian novel of sorts, about a young Spanish farmer who emigrates to Cuba, "where the rising wave of a boom-period sweeps him tempestuously into the drama of Cuban life. He answers the confusion of American mines, local politics, sugar boom, and local revolution with a stubborn simplicity." (That's a quote from the jacket blurb, but note that NO jacket is present on this copy of the book, although the trimmed jacket flaps are affixed to the pastedowns.) The Time magazine reviewer observed that "sinister echoes of U.S. big business [and] Havana terrorism are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry," also noting that the author had spent a year in Cuba circa 1928, where he "wandered the countryside, spoke the language, watched the people instead of the politicians.".…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first edition, first impression of this 1935 historical novel about Napoleon Bonaparte's exile on St. Helena. In the publisher's original dust wrapper, price clipped.The first edition, first impression of this historical novel, the work of academic William Reitzel, writing under the pseudonym Wilson Wright.A fascinating fictionalised account of the final years of Napoleon's life.With a contemporary inscription, dated 1935, to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Minor bump to back strip head, otherwise externally fine. Inscription to front free endpaper. Light edgewear to dust wrapper back strip head and tail, with significant loss to tail of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. First Edition. [light shelfwear, spine slightly turned, faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket slightly edgeworn and age-toned]. Agrarian novel of sorts, about a young Spanish farmer who emigrates to Cuba, "where the rising wave of a boom-period sweeps him tempestuously into the drama of Cuban life. He answers the confusion of American mines, local politics, sugar boom, and local revolution with a stubborn simplicity." The Time magazine reviewer observed that "sinister echoes of U.S. big business [and] Havana terrorism are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry," also noting that the author had spent a year in Cuba circa 1928, where he "wandered the countryside, spoke the language, watched the people instead of the politicians." A particularly nice example of the scarce and somewhat fragile dust jacket.…