Summer Williamsburg by Fuchs Daniel, Signed (2 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st printing thus. [some age-toning to page edges, small brown spot at top of front cover, a couple of soft diagonal creases in front cover] Trade PB INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To Hedda & Vincent, / Old friends, / Daniel / 2/6/73." The author's trilogy of Jewish slum life in New York City; the novels were originally published in 1934, 1936 and 1937, respectively. (The last of the three, Low Company, was the basis for the 1947 film THE GANGSTER, for which the characters and milieu were completely de-Semitized, if that's a word.) The inscribees were film director Vincent Sherman and his wife; Sherman and Fuchs had been acquainted personally and professionally since the 1930s, and collaborated on the 1943 Warner Bros. film THE HARD WAY, starring Ida Lupino, which Sherman directed from a screenplay by Fuchs and Peter Viertel. Signed by Author NOISBN.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to noted philanthropist and book collector Charles Feinberg: "To Mr. Feinberg / With all good wishes / Daniel Fuchs." Feinberg's Walt Whitman collection now resides in the Library of Congress. The author's first novel, taking its place next to Henry Roth's "Call It Sleep," published the same year, as a classic of Jewish-American life in New York during the Great Depression. Fuchs would go on to write two more novels in the same vein, today generally thought of as a trilogy collectively called "The Brooklyn Novels" or "The Williamsburg Trilogy." Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Lightly faded spine. Jacket crown, heel, and flap folds are lightly chipped, some with one-inch tears and accompanying creasing, and a lightly faded spine. Housed in a customer cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. Signed.