One Against the Earth

Published by Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., New York, 1932

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(no dust jacket, but encased in a nice-looking facsimile reproduction of the original first edition jacket; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [moderately worn book, spine slightly turned, covers just a bit warped, much external soiling and light staining, a couple of faint beverage-ring marks on front cover, small stain at top edge of title page; essentially a reading/reference copy only]. 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. (Baird & Greenwood 1641) NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, which has not been factored in to our pricing.

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Title
One Against the Earth
Author
Mainwaring, Daniel
Publisher
Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., New York
Publication year
1932
Condition
Fair
Binding
Hardcover
Illustrator
Illustrated by (dj) Falls
Edition
First Edition.

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