The Williamsburg Trilogy: Summer in Williamsburg; Homage to Blenholt; Neptune Beach [Low Company] -- the British first editions

London: Constable and Co., Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1935-1936-1937. 1st British Editions. Hardcover. "Summer": VG/VG, a good sound copy, some age-toning and scattered foxing/staining to edges of text block; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, with some paper loss at the top of the spine (very slightly affecting the first word in the title), a 1.25-inch split at the lower front hinge with an associated short diagonal tear, very slight paper loss at the upper fold points]. "Homage": VG+/VG+, a nice copy, very light soiling to edges of text block, light shelfwear to bottom edges of covers; the jacket is lightly edgeworn and a bit tanned at the spine]. "Neptune": VG/VG (price-clipped); modest wear and very light bumping to corners, spine a bit turned, minor offsetting to endpapers; the jacket has some very shallow chipping at the base of the spine, a handful of tiny nicks along the top edge, a couple of tiny scrape marks on the front panel, very slight paper loss at the upper right corner of the front panel, a long vertical crease along the left edge of the front panel, and an old printed price sticker affixed to the spine; presents much more attractively than that litany of flaws would suggest]. The British first editions of the author's "trilogy" of lower-class Jewish-American life in Brooklyn (which even Fuchs himself denied was a proper trilogy; it just happened that he wrote three novels – critically-praised but commercially unsuccessful – before decamping for Hollywood and that (relatively) easy movie money). Since they were reprinted in an omnibus volume in 1961, however, the works have only grown in critical estimation. ***This set is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-Fiction." .