Kneel to the Rising Sun
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1961. First Edition. Cloth. 12mo, 246 pages. First British edition. Red cloth boards with blue lettering on spine. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book with minor wear. Foxing on top edge, faint foxing on fore edge. Black stripe on copyright page, which bleeds through to the title page. Jacket with mild rubbing and sunning, now encased in a clear protective cover. Signed by author (name only) on half-title page. Collectible Good / good. Item #12135
Erskine Preston Caldwell (1903 – 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, particularly in his novels 'Tobacco Road' (1932) and 'God's Little Acre' (1933) brought him critical acclaim. 'Kneel to the Rising Sun,' first published in the US in 1935, is a collection of short stories. The seventeen stories, only a few pages each, all deal with various tragedies occurring in the early twentieth century American South, mostly due to poverty and racism.
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