SIGNED Erskine Caldwell 1935 Limited Edition Numbered KNEEL TO THE RISING SUN HC

Kneel to the Rising Sun. Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1935. Signed First Edition, # 227 Limited to 300 of which 285 were for sale. Very good hardcover in very good slipcase.

Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text, in mylar wrapper. In original tan paper-covered slipcase. Edition of 300, of which 285 numbered were for sale and 15 reserved for private distribution; this copy numbered 227. Signed by Caldwell at limitation statement.

Scarce copy of the signed limited edition of Caldwell's short fiction. Caldwell's third and highly regarded collection of seventeen short stories, many of them set in the author's native Georgia and dealing with rural poverty, civil rights, and racial injustice; some light and comedic and some, like the title story, dark and violent.

KNEEL TO THE RISING SUN was published just a few years after Caldwell's novels TOBACCO ROAD and GOD'S LITTLE ACRE, on whose greatness his reputation still rests. SIGNED Erskine Caldwell 1935 Limited Edition Numbered KNEEL TO THE RISING SUN HC.

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