Inscribed in the year of publication.

CARR, J. L. ~ The Battle of Pollocks Crossing : Signed By the Author In The Year Of Publication

First UK Printing : Viking, London : 1985

8vo., navy-blue publisher’s boards, lettered in silver to backstrip; in the unclipped wrapper designed by Stephen Raw (£8.95 net); THE BOOK a Very Good++ or better copy, with slight shelf-lean and two green scribbles, likely by a child, to the rear endpaper and paste-down; otherwise clean and bright in the near-Fine WRAPPER, lightly sunned and rubbed with a small corner crease to the rear flap. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First edition, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication: “Alan & Doreen / this tale of / Far Away & / Long Ago / Jim / June 1. 1985” The recipients were close friends of the author. Carr’s sixth novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in the year of publication. Carr had worked as an exchange teacher in South Dakota from 1938–1939, and again from 1956–1957. The Battle of Pollocks Crossing was his first novel, initially entitled Oh, My America, a quotation from John Donne. Based on his experiences in the city of Huron, it initially failed to find a publisher, and it was not until the 1980s that it was accepted by Viking. In it, Carr becomes George Gidner and Huron the fictional town of Palisades, with the plot set during the months leading up to the Wall Street Crash. Carr had previously reported that his years living in America were ones of great struggle, with his British salary converted into dollars pitifully inadequate to meet the American cost of living. A bright copy with a personal inscription.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Very Good++
JACKET: Near Fine