First US Edition. First American edition, stated. Octavo, orange-red cloth with gilt titling on a deeper red panel to spine. Boards are somewhat soiled to the spine, else tight, and Vg in a dustwrapper that has been carefully taped to head and heel of spine. The first edition of the first novel of an author who developed into one of the major talents of the twentieth century.

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