Forever Glory

(no dust jacket) [solid copy, a little external soiling, minor bumping to top edge of rear cover]. An early Fisher novel, written when he was just beginning to emerge from the pulp-mag jungle and was still focused largely on military-themed stories, many of which drew upon his own experiences in the U.S. Navy. He would soon turn almost exclusively to hard-boiled mystery fiction of the Black Mask variety, his breakthrough success in that genre coming in 1941 with "I Wake Up Screaming." This book, set in San Francisco and Honolulu, according to one critic presents a rather fanciful picture of peacetime Navy life at Pearl Harbor; per the blurb, its hero, a Navy flier, "moves swiftly through a maze of human emotion, tasting the sweetness of life and draining the dregs." [Note that this book is bound in tan cloth, unlike several other "first editions" seen -- but it's well-established that this was a regular Macaulay practice, and because printings (first or subsequent) were not usually stated, establishing a priority among variant bindings is almost impossible.]

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Publisher: The Macaulay Company

Year: (c.1936)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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