Bessie Cotter
by Smith, Wallace
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Covici Friede Publishers, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Wallace Smith is best known in Oregon as the illustrator of the Pendleton Round-Up poster (you know the one). However, he was also an author. This novel of a Chicago prostitute was published in England a year after the American edition, but was declared indecent & banned there. Later editions were printed in Paris by the Obelisk Press. This indecent ruling was despite the lifting of the ban on Ulysses in 1933 which generally indicated a loosening of such restrictions. Unlike the sexy cover of the 1950s pulp paperback reprint by Berkley, this cover art has just a subtle reference to the red-light content of the book. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket. Foxing to page edges, toning to endpapers; DJ has short closed tear & associated crease to bottom of rear panel. A stunning example of an exceedingly scarce book, important in the history of the suppression of modernist literature, and for being an early modern novel about a sex worker.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002659
- Title
- Bessie Cotter
- Author
- Smith, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Covici Friede Publishers
- Date Published
- 1934
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- gender studies women
Terms of Sale
Crooked House Books & Paper
Returns accepted if seller is contacted within 7 days of receipt. Buyer pays postage on returns unless merchandise received does not match original description. If paying with check or money order, payment must be received and verified before order can ship.
About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...