Jade Malloy

New York: House of Field, Inc, 1943. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A fine copy in a very good jacket with spine faded and wear at extremities. 8vo. Original green cloth, printed paper spine label; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. A dedication copy, inscribed "Copy #1" on the front free endpaper and on the dedication leaf next to the printed dedication that reads: "To Harvey Taylor / Author's Representative / and / Bill Saroyan / (They said they'd get me started.)" Waer has written "He did / J. Waer 8-21-43" next to the printed dedication. A newspaper clipping on the rear pastedown recount's Waer's fine, along with three other men, after being caught running an illegal game of dice.