Ask the Dust

by John Fante

$1,200 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1939. First edition. 235 pp. Bound in publisher's oatmeal cloth stamped in brown. Very Good+, lacking dust jacket. A little thumb-soiling to contents, tiny stains to fore edge, corners slightly bumped, small sticker shadow to front free endpaper. A nice copy. A great novel of Los Angeles, hailed by Charles Bukowski as a major influence. Item #140941358

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