Author: FAST, Howard
Title: The American: A Middle Western Legend
Description: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 337pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket rather edgeworn, with a few small edge chips and lightly sunned spine. A tight, nice first edition. Name/address label on front pastedown of academic and literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir (1923-2013). Historical fiction about Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld and the Haymarket Riot. .

Keywords: American Literature Illinois & Midwest


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