[Item #17178] The Fifth Son of the Shoemaker. Donald CORLEY.

The Fifth Son of the Shoemaker

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (19cm). Turquoise cloth, lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 282pp. A few faint spots of mottling to cloth at spine, else a fine, tight copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped and just lightly rubbed at extremities, Near Fine.

Corley's second published book and only novel, a loosely-gathered series of anecdotes concerning a family of Russian emigre shoemakers in New York's Lower East Side. The jacket art is by Corley himself, who was perhaps better-known as an illustrator than an author, though he did publish several Bleiler-listed collections of fantastic short stories. The current title is also in Bleiler, though the fantasy elements are incidental. An uncommonly nice copy. Not in Hanna. BLEILER (Checklist, 1972) p.85.

Price: $75.00

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