Fante, John (stories); Cooney, Stephen (editor)

THE BIG HUNGER: STORIES 1932-1959

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. First Trade Edition. Item #5497

First Printing, cloth issue, one of 750 copies. Octavo (23.5cm); printed paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with title label applied to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-315,[5]pp. Faint, scattered foxing to lower board edges and right edge of textblock, else Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. Collection of 17 previously-unpublished stories by Fante, written between 1932-1959, together with the preface to Ask the Dust. With a preface and notes by biographer Stephen Cooper.

Price: $75.00