Tobacco Road

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth decorated in blind and silver. Near fine. 241 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Signed presentation copy to Paul Carman signed by Erskine Caldwell. Interior contents fresh and clean. A novel about a dysfunctional family of Georgia sharecroppers during the Great Depression and often portrayed as a work of social realism. Saxophonist Paul Carman is a veteran of the Frank Zappa Band of the late 1980's (in Frank's own words, "the best band you never heard in your life").