8vo. Half-title. Original russet cloth decorated in gilt and blind; in unclipped dust jacket (reinforced on verso along flap folds and edges, very slight chipping to spine ends, spine panel darkened). Provenance: Ralph D. Hartman, president of the Cleveland Photographic Society (presentation inscription, bookplate). 
 
FIRST EDITION, with "A" on copyright page. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CALDWELL: "To Ralph D. Hartman with all the good wishes of Erskine Caldwell." Caldwell's novel, set in Augusta, Georgia, depicts a family of poor white tenant farmers during the height of the Great Depression. It was dramatized for Broadway by Jack Kirkland in 1933, and the Modern Library ranked it among the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.