SHAPIRO, JULIAN [SANFORD, JOHN.] The Water Wheel. 8vo, publisher's green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, slightly skewed, light spine fade; dust jacket, spine panel faded with chipping to head and foot with no letters lost, fold corners also chipped, short closed tears; age-toning to endpapers. First edition, in the very scarce, and unrestored, dust jacket. Shapiro's first novel and the only one to bear his real name. Henceforth all his books would be published under the name John Sanford. In the 1950s his career as a Hollywood screenwriter was thwarted when he was among those blacklisted after he refused to testify in the Senator McCarthy-led HUAC hearings. A friend of Nathanael West, Shapiro/Sanford went on to write more than 20 novels, and is now considered to be among the unjustly neglected figures of post-war American letters. [Ithaca]: Dragon Press, Duffield and Green, (1933)