first edition
1944 · Garden City
by ROBERTS, Cecil
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, 1944. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; illustrated map endpapers; dustjacket; 278pp. Previous owners' names and date pencilled to front endpaper. Faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, and light sunning to spine and upper edges of boards; Near Fine. Dustwrapper unclipped (priced $2.50) with modest shelfwear, two tape mends to front joint, and tiny chips and tears along spine ends and extremities; Good. Published the same year as the U.K. edition, Roberts' novel focuses on characters in 1940s Crete during the WWII German invasion. [83422]. (Inventory #: 83422)