Apples Be Ripe

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. Very Good/Good +. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. First US Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 304pp. Publisher's black cloth-bound boards with red stamping in publisher's salmon illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket generally dust soiled, chipped, rubbed, and worn with all corners clipped. Spine darkened and ends show minor loss. Abrasion to top right corner of front cover from erasure. Verso tape repaired by previous owner both with packing and clear tape, making spine firm; also has a series of numbers in pencil at back panel. Board corners, spine ends, and margins bumped. Lightly dust soiled and shelfworn with binding slightly cocked but firm. Starting at back endsheet; pages lightly toned but clean. A Very Good copy in a Good or better dust jacket.

The first novel of Powys, who wrote mostly non-fiction, following a man who quits his stable job to become a full time wanderer and farm laborer.