Wait Until Spring, Bandini (with laid-in letter/postcard signed by Joyce Fante)

Fante, John

Edité par Stackpole Sons, New York, 1938

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265 Pages. First edition of a first novel. Blue-green cloth with orange spine lettering and embossed title on front board. Slightly cocked spine. No marks or stamps and interior text pages are near flawless. Dust jacket $2.50 flap price is unclipped and the top of the spine area and corner is jagged and as much as 3/8 inch is missing. Jacket currently has a vinyl covering. Laid in is a hand-written (1988 and 1991) post card and an envelope/letter both signed by Joyce Fante the author's wife addressed to a San Francisco friend. Her Los Angeles Times 2005 obituary is also laid in. In the little Italian-American home in Colorado are five souls- passionate, Latin souls of poverty stricken people caught in tragedy and superstition. Svevo Bandini is the father's name, and he loves his white saint of a wife, Maria, and he puts his whole heart into the masonry which is his profession; but he yields to the allure of a yellow-haired widow in the town-and the results are devastating. Maria seeks solace from the priest and prays for beauty to hold her Svevo. The oldest son, who hates being an Italian, takes a certain 'pride in his father's heroic escapade-but the conflict in the boy leads finally to a smashing climax for the entire family. Superbly written, here is a tender, virile drama, touched with irony and good comedy, a novel that rushes along an inevitable course with an unmistakable current of literary beauty. This novel is semi-autobiographical. We are donsbookstore in Albuquerque New Mexico. The book you see in the image is the actual book we have for sale. When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Wait Until Spring, Bandini (with laid-in letter/postcard signed by Joyce Fante)
• Éditeur: Stackpole Sons, New York
• Date de parution: 1938
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hard Back
• Édition: First Editiion
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Good