[Item #18260] Christ In Concrete. Pietro DI DONATO.

Christ In Concrete

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); black textured boards with red-orange topstain, titles and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 311pp. Endpapers and pastedowns slightly toned (as is nearly always the case), with a touch of rubbing to spine lettering; Near Fine. Dustjacket neatly separated at front spine-fold; unclipped, with shallow chipping, wear, and creasing to extremities, with several short tears, rubbing along joints, and a faint diagonal crease along rear panel; Good.

A labor novel chronicling the life of an Italian bricklayer in the slums of New York, preceded by an excerpt appearing in Esquire Magazine in 1937. Basis for the 1949 British film noir Give Us This Day, directed by Edward Dmytryk. HANNA 992. COAN p.202.

Price: $100.00

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