$1000 A Week and Other Stories

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1942. First edition. 226 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with black text on spine and front board, head of spine is quite bumped resulting in a short tear to cloth and creasing to first few pages at top edge of hinge. Dust jacket has some soiling on verso, chipping along top edge and small inner tear at top front corner, toning on spine and one inch chip at head of spine with slight loss of lettering, with shallow chip at foot of spine, else good; overall a good copy. First edition. 226 pp. 8vo. James Thomas Farrell (b.1904 – d.1979) was an Irish-Catholic author; a novelist, short-story writer, journalist and poet, a political (truncated) activist (Trotskyist, member of the Socialist Worker Party, and later the Workers' Party). He was born in Chicago, his father was a teamster, and he studied at the University of Chicago. His Studs Lonigan trilogy, Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934) and Judgment Day (1935) was voted number 29 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century, and it was the basis for the 1960 film. (Inventory #: 338603)