My Glorious Brothers
Boston: Little, Brown & Company / Liberty Book Club, 1948. Alan Haemer (dust jacket). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 280. Pale red cloth, titles stamped in white on the spine, endpaper maps. Liberty Book Club first edition: edges minimally age toned, half title page marked in ball point "Christmas 1949." In the two-color illustrated dust jacket, price $2.75 intact and a blurb from Paul Robeson on the front flap: spine and head edge age toned, small ink mark and short closed tear to back panel. Very Good / Very Good. Item #6670
Novel of the 167 BC Maccabeean revolt, from the prolific author of Spartacus. Fast was blacklisted by publishers in the 1950s after refusing to name names before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
Price: $40.00