In this classic Depression-era Texas novel, three wayfaring comrades ask for no pity as they travel the country looking for signs from the Higher Powers - and for whiskey and women. As Eddie, the narrator, muses the Higher Powers had meant us to live like wild free studhorses roaming the face of the earth and gladdening whatever hearts we run across. Finding their way to a camp under a Brazos River bridge, Eddie, Mike and Jimmy survive on windfalls they find, con, or take outright. Their ribald adventures sparkle with ...
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In this classic Depression-era Texas novel, three wayfaring comrades ask for no pity as they travel the country looking for signs from the Higher Powers - and for whiskey and women. As Eddie, the narrator, muses the Higher Powers had meant us to live like wild free studhorses roaming the face of the earth and gladdening whatever hearts we run across. Finding their way to a camp under a Brazos River bridge, Eddie, Mike and Jimmy survive on windfalls they find, con, or take outright. Their ribald adventures sparkle with humorous philosophy and wry social satire. One can scarcely find a book that is more politically incorrect than Walls Rise Up, writes Judyth Rigler in the foreword, yet the reader . . . finds it easy to laugh at descriptions of shiftless hoboes, alcoholics, loose women, dimwitted giants, liars, thieves and the like. First published in 1939 by Doubleday Doran, this reprint includes a little known, previously unpublished chapter that Perry had intended for a future edition.
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Good with no dust jacket. Lime green hb with illustration on front and black lettering on faded spine/slight wear at top spine/cover slightly soiled; 159 pages.
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Used; Good. Used; Good. 13-G-21 Doubleday Doran and Co 1939 Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Previous owner's bookplate is on inside front cover. Text is unmarked. Jacket is missing a piece of the spine and a piece of the back. It is in a mylar protective cover. Book Condition; Good Jacket Condition; Acceptable. 1939. HARDCOVER.
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Used; Good. Used; Good. 7-B-36 Whittlesey House 1939 hardcover stated Fifth printing. No dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers have moderate wear, with a tiny tear at top of spine. Book Condition; Good. 1939. HARDCOVER.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 236. Original publishers' illustrated cloth. Clean, about fine copy, in decent in near VG d/w, with very slight soiling and a couple of short nicks and very small chips at spine ends.
