Backfire by Chase Daniel (5 results)

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with minor loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 300 pages 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with minor loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 300 pages 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 300pp. Black boards, bright green titles on spine and front board. Clean, unmarked copy apart from 75 in pencil on FFEP and July 78 in pencil on rear paste down. Binding tight, spine straight, corners square. Art Deco illustrated dust jacket is bright and vivid in mylar sleeve. Creasing at foot of spine and lower left edge of front jacket panel, but that doesn't extend to illustration. Dust jacket unclipped, illustration by Carl W. Bertsch. Dartmouth alum Chase's novel of New England bootlegging and the troubles it causes for the protagonist. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. First edition. Young man riding high, brought low by illness and exile meets copper haired lovely, but sets out to play a dangerous game on the back roads of New England. Attractive jacket art by Carl W. Bertsch. Not in *Hubin*.

First Edition. Carl W. Bertsch dustjacket art. Judging from the dustjacket illustration of a man shooting a gun at someone in an auto accident, this is a novel of some intrigue, but is not listed in Hubin. The jacket copy reads: "Feeling himself set apart by his affliction Chan took the devious back road and entered the most dangerous game of this queer time of ours". Perhaps a reference to rum-running during prohibition. Near Fine in near Very Good dustjacket, shallow spine end chipping and wear, partial split at front flap edge.