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Caldwell, Erskine (1903-1987) God's Little Acre.
New York: The Viking Press, 1933.
First edition, octavo; title printed in red and black; publisher's black cloth stamped in green and orange, top edge tinted orange; in the unclipped illustrated dust jacket showing a rising sun (a crisp copy: jacket nicely preserved without any toning as is often seen, only a few tiny, closed tears); 7 ½ x 5 in.
The follow-up to his famous hit, Tobacco Road (1932), Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre is one of the best-selling works of modern American fiction. The novel was initially considered highly controversial because of its proletariat messaging and overt sexual content, the latter of which landed Caldwell in front of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice in 1933. Writers, editors, and other literary figures rallied to the author's defense, and Caldwell was eventually acquitted of all charges.
