The Pieces of a Fan

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7x5x1. First edition. Lacks jacket. Pencil marginalia on page 285. 1937 Hard Cover. x, 285 pp. "This is the first collection of short stories by the brilliant author of Personal History. As such they give further proof, were it needed, of Vincent Sheean's amazing literary genius. The reader will search in vain in this volume for the slick, commercialized plot, the artificial complication. Each story, complete in its artistic entity, is a notable performance in the art of creating character or in the setting of an unforgettable situation. They range in theme from the court of Louis XV to the country house of a modern social climber; from a lovely Italian lake to the feud country of the Virginia mountains. These are indeed important contributions to the art of the short story, by an author who now establishes himself as a master in that difficult medium."--blurb page