THE LONG NOVEMBER

8vo, green boards, bronze lettering, NO D.J., ostensibly a war novel, but a dying soldier's delirious memories in the italian campaign recalling his life, poverty, many women, prohibition, hard times. The first and only novel by this Canadian writer, over the border at the FALLS, a popular success with lurid covers for the p.b. drug store wire rack trade. He then like (Fuchs and Faulkner) found his way to Hollywood where he worked on NOIRS AND SEMI NOIRS until he died at 45. A hard boiled life. The novel has been recently reprinted and a group of his stories and a memoir has also appeared. PERSONAL LONG INSCRIPTION BY HIM ON BACK OF FRONT BOARD, dated 1945. An impossible signature, who knows if there were any other HARD BOILED Canadian writers in the game.VVclst1/2.