One Against the Earth

[solid copy with some light wear at extremities, a couple of tiny spots on fore-edge, one-time owner's signature on pencil on ffep; jacket moderately worn, with some fading and surface residue (from former jacket protector) along top and bottom edges, some paper loss at spine ends (slightly affecting title at top of spine; taking away half of publisher's name at bottom of spine and also extending a bit into the panels)]. Scarce poetic/"proletarian" work about "a youth with a beauty-questing soul [and] a strange heritage - - a wanderlust that cannot be quelled and a love of the soil that draws him back to it after each defeat." The author's first novel and, as it turned out, the only book he ever published under his own name. He later achieved considerable success in the semi-hardboiled vein as "Geoffrey Homes," although he continued to use his own name for his screenwriting efforts (most notably the adaptation of his final novel, "Build My Gallows High," into the wonderful film noir OUT OF THE PAST, and the screenplay for Don Siegel's ultra-creepy INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS). Like much of his detective fiction, this novel is set in California, and includes a passage dealing with the protagonist's work as a newspaperman in Los Angeles. [Edition unstated, but 1933 appears on both the title page and as the copyright date; the first edition states 1932 in both places.] (Baird & Greenwood 1641)

Product Info

Publisher: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc.

Year: 1933

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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