Item #14247 Shadow Over the Land [Inscribed and Twice Signed]. Charles Dwoskin.
The author's first and only novel

Shadow Over the Land [Inscribed and Twice Signed]

New York: Beechhurst Press, 1946. Very Good / Very Good. Item #14247

New York: Beechhurst Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); 285pp. Moderate wear to jacket and cloth extremities including a few shallow chips and closed tears to the former, briefly affecting text at spine ends without loss of meaning, spine cocked and textblock toned, cloth fading along edges, else a Very Good copy. Inscribed and signed by the author in the year of publication on front free endpaper and signed again on title page.

The Brooklyn-born author's first and only book, published at the precocious age of twenty-four. The work, written in the tradition of Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, describes the post-War rise of the fictitious radical right-wing group "Patriots United," based on the very real "American First" movement.

Price: $250.00

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