Author: EDMUND WILSON.
Title: Devil Take the Hindmost. A Year of the Slump.
Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York and London, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The first UK edition of 'American Jitters', printed from the US sheets with a cancel title page but with the original US title still clearly displayed in the advertisements. 8vo. 313pp. Original publisher's cloth with defective gilt lettering to the spine and - slightly less defective - to the upper board. Cloth lightly discoloured with a tiny nick to the head and base of the backstrip. Top edge a little dust marked and endpapers very lightly soiled but thereafter a very crisp and bright copy internally. Former owner name and date inked to the head of the front free endpaper. No dust wrapper. Scribner's promotional postcard laid-in. The uncommon English issue of the author's sixth book, a document of the mood of a Depression-struck nation, compiled from a series of articles written as Wilson toured the country reporting for the 'New Republic'. Good/No Jacket.

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