When Time Was Born

(New York): The Smith by arrangement with Horizon Press, (1966).

Price: $750.00

Hardcover. First edition, limited issue. Illustrated by Stephen Dwoskin. Fine in lightly worn example of the original unprinted glassine dustwrapper (not shown in illustration). One of an unspecified number of a limited edition, by turns we have heard both 250 and 500 as the number printed, Signed by the author. Additionally, this copy is Inscribed by the author to Malcolm Cowley and his wife: "To Malcolm and Muriel, Jim Farrell." Cowley and Farrell were both residents of Greenwich Village during the 1930s, and both were active participants in various left wing activities including several American Writer's Congresses. This is Farrell's retelling of the story of Adam and Eve.

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Item #66216 When Time Was Born. James T. FARRELL.
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James T. Farrell
birth name: James Thomas Farrell
born: 2/27/1904
died: 8/22/1979
nationality: USA

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American novelist and short-story writer known for his realistic portraits of the lower-middle-class Irish in Chicago, drawn from his own experiences. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore