SHAPIRO JULIAN [SANFORD JOHN] The Water Wheel

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SHAPIRO, JULIAN [SANFORD, JOHN.] The Water Wheel. 8vo, publisher's green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, slight lean, spine with uniform light fading, but overall a very nice copy. [Ithaca]: Dragon Press, Duffield and Green, (1933)

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first edition, presentation copy. The inscription on the front free endpaper reads: "For Connie & Tom / Sincerely / Julian L. Shapiro / 'Johnny' / 2.13.38." 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 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 one of the most unjustly neglected figures of post-war American letters.