The Lower Part of the Sky; a novel of the irony of belief

New York: Creative Age Press. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid book, minor shelfwear, light dust-soiling to top edge, slight fading to top inch or so of spine cloth; jacket edgeworn, with numerous tape repairs (mostly internal), various small chips, wrinkling, etc.]. The author's first novel, which relates "the nightmarish drama of the chase of a gentle little boy, Robert, by a gang of slum children -- Angelo, Patsy, and the Polack; it tells of the search and discovery of a god, of 'Mr. God,' by the gang, those monsters of viciousness, but not altogether of non-humanity; it tells of their mad plunging into life, 'like wild horses,' through young manhood, through crime and cruelty and sex to the disastrous, ironical end." (Apparently "the irony of belief" wasn't considered a sexy enough tagline, however, as the jacket designer re-imagined the subtitle as "a novel of fear, of hope, of evil.") .