When Night Descends [*SIGNED*/limited ed.]

New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Near Fine. (c.1936). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [light shelfwear only, faint bookseller's stamp on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, California); gilt lettering on spine and front cover slightly dulled but still quite distinct]. (A Selection of The Discoverers) Series SIGNED by the author on the limitation page, preceding the half-title page. ("This first edition of When Night Descends is limited to 1250 copies, printed from plates, signed by the author. No. 307.") Novel about the separate adventures in Manhattan, in a single night, of four members of the same family. The author was a Paris-based foreign correspondent during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and published some early work in the experimental literary journal "transition"; he was a friend and associate of Ernest Hemingway, and later became one of "[Edward R.] Murrow's Boys" at CBS Radio (and later Television). This was his second novel, and like his first ("Beyond the Street," published in 1934) is set in New York City. He was subsequently known as "Ned" throughout his radio and TV career, and in 1961 published an autobiographical novel, "All the Summer Days," based on his years in Paris. Signed by Author .