The Build-Up

Fine Book in Fine Jacket. See scans and description. New York: Random House [1952]. First Edition. First Printing stated on copyright page. Octavo, 335 pp. Black cloth-backed orange paper boards, blue lettering on cover and spine; light buff dustjacket with black and red lettering on cover, spine and rear cover. Fine, flawless book in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket, showing one 1 mm closed nick at upper left, front (see scan). Mylar protected. Striking condition. The third novel in Williams' White Mule trilogy about the Stecher family of immigrants and their lives in America; the first two were The White Mule [1937] and In the Money [1940]. L12n