Dedicated by Burton Thomas: First Edition (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1940 First Edition with no subsequent printings listed. Signed by author in his real name 'Stephen Longstreet' on the title page. 8vo. - over 7? in. - 9? in., 416pp. Hardcover in red cloth, black and gilt titles and decor to spine. Minor shelfwear, binding solid and strong, interior text clean. Very Good copy. Signed By Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [good sound copy, internally clean, mildly shelfworn, light dust-soiling to top of text block, very light bumping to bottom corners]. Pseudonymous novel by Stephen Longstreet, set in the 1920s in a fictional Midwestern town, "Corinth." The plot centers around a romantic triangle that culminates in a scandalous double murder, and is set against the background of labor troubles. The author, in a note to the reader, explains that his purely-invented "Crime of the Century"-type situation "owes nothing to the real events [of the 1920s] except the pure frenzy, the emotion with which we took such things in those days." Longstreet, who began his professional life as an artist, began writing for radio in 1933 and went on to a multi-faceted career as a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, art critic, lecturer, journalist, and jazz historian. He wrote dozens of books (one source says "over 100," but honestly, I haven't counted), both fiction and nonfiction, and employed as many as a half-dozen pseudonyms. His best-known screenwriting credit was probably for THE JOLSON STORY (1946), and he also co-wrote the book for the 1947 Broadway musical "High Button Shoes," adapted from his own semi-autobiographical novel, "The Sisters Liked Them Handsome." ("Thomas Burton" appearse to have been Longstreet's "serious fiction set in the 1920s Midwest" pseudonym, as the only other book for which he used it was the 1941 novel "Bloodbird," which dealt with the conflict between farmers and industrialists over the building of a hydroelectric dam.). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 5.5 X 8.25 inches. 416 pages. Red cloth with red, black and gilt design. Engraved design of a village on front panel. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The front panel/flap is totally detached with a tear along the spine but has been placed in position under the mylar covering. Pseudonymous novel by Stephen Longstreet, set in the 1920s in a fictional Midwestern town, "Corinth." The plot centers around a romantic triangle that culminates in a scandalous double murder, and is set against the background of labor troubles.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 416 pages. First edition, first printing. Arthur Hawkins designed dust jacket. A strike in a small midwestern town is broken with great force, leaving death and heartbreak. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with a faint ownership stamp on the front flyleaf. A beautiful copy. Hawkins, Jr., Arthur (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Red Boards with a village scene engraved and stamped on the front board. A very clean book. Unclipped dust jacket that has some frailing to the spine ends with small tears.

First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm); red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; dark gray topstain; dustjacket; 416pp. Two unobtrusive scratches to topstain, else Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.50), with light edgewear, a few short tears and small nicks. Strike novel set in a small Midwestern town, where a young man marries the heiress of the town's ruling-class family, but discovers his heart belongs to a militant factory worker. "The strike begins in a packing plant and spreads to poor farmers and power plant workers. It is broken through a violent assault on the strikers by the National Guard." The protagonist decides to leave his wife for the factory worker, but the two lovers are shot by his wife. In an attractive example of the scarce Arthur Hawkins-designed dustjacket. BLAKE p.270, HANNA 2230.…