signed first edition
1946 · New York
by Bulosan, Carlos
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Signed by Carlos Bulosan, warmly inscribed on front free endpaper to poet Dion O'Donnol who wrote the foreword to the 1942 book Chorus for America in which Bulosan appeared (the very first Filipino poetry anthology published in America.), "With the fond hope that you will remember the frantic days in 1942, when the war came to stop our work. [signed] Carlos Bulosan Los Angeles 4-2-46." [vi], 326 pp. Publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. A Very Good+ copy lacking the dust jacket with rubbing to lettering at foot, tiny dimple to spine, light rubbing along bottom edge and a little foxing to top edge, two small stains to rear endpaper. The scarce first edition of the blacklisted Filipino author's best-known work, an autobiographical novel of the Great Depression that is a classic of Asian American literature, with an excellent association.
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