Anthony Adverse

  • New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1933
By ALLEN, Hervey
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1933. Publishers Weekly best-selling novel in the US for 1933 & 1934

ALLEN, Hervey. Anthony Adverse. Decorations by Allan McNab. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1933.

First edition, first printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6 inches; 216 x 152 mm.). [xii], [1]-1224 pp. Title-page printed in blue & black.

Publisher's blue cloth, front cover bordered and titled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. Original printed dust jacket with $3.00 on front flap, spine slightly darkened, extremities of inside fold neatly strengthened. A good copy.

The novel contains three volumes: The Roots of the Tree, The Other Bronze Boy and The Lonely Twin, and each volume contains three "books", making for nine books in total.

The story follows the eponymous protagonist, Anthony Adverse, through several adventures around the world. This includes slave trading in Africa, his business dealings as a plantation owner in New Orleans, and his incarceration and eventual death in Mexico.

The novel was the Publishers Weekly best-selling novel in the United States for two consecutive years: 1933 and 1934.

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Anthony Adverse

Author

ALLEN, Hervey

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Publisher

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1933


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