Ask the Dust

by John Fante

$1,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1939. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's oatmeal cloth stamped in brown; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Light lean to binding. Cloth lightly soiled and spine-toned. Thin strip of worming to gutter of front pastedown. A great novel about Los Angeles, hailed by Charles Bukowski as a major influence. Item #140940959

• Printing: first

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