The Big Rock Candy Mountain (First edition in a dust jacket)

515pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Red cloth covered boards. There is a small split in the cloth at the foot of the spine, and there is a previous owner's bookplate, along with a bookseller's ticket, on the front pastedown. In a dust jacket, with toning to the rear panel, light sunning to the spine, and periodic short open and closed tears to the edges. A major work by this twentieth-century giant, and a semi-autobiographical work about his childhood in the west. Colberg A7.1.a. The saga of a family attempting to survive during the lean years of the early 20th century.