Ask the Dust

by John Fante

$1,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1939. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's oatmeal cloth stamped in brown; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with lean to spine, former owner name in color pencil and erased inscription to front free end paper, and small nicks to several pages at top edge. A great novel about Los Angeles, hailed by Charles Bukowski as a major influence. Item #140941532

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