ELLISON, Jerome

The Prisoner Ate A Hearty Breakfast

New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. Tan cloth; dustjacket; 218pp. External foxing to board edges and text block edges, else a tight, straight copy, Very Good or better, in the original dustwrapper, unclipped, just lightly soiled on rear wrapper; VG+ to Near Fine.

Ellison's first novel, a picaresque romance of a young, starving artist on the road in the Great Depression. Ellison (1908-1981) would publish one more well-received novel ("The Dam," 1941), then went on to a long and distinguished career as a magazine editor and publisher. In 1946 he founded "Associated Magazine Contributors," a co-operative fiction venture whose co-owners included Steinbeck and Dos Passos. HANNA 1085.

Price: $75.00

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