CALDWELL, ERSKINE — God's Little Acre; (Modern Library #51. 2)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1947]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of Mr. Caldwell's rollicking, humorous novel, featuring eccentric Southern farmers. This work was so controversial that it was banned in Boston and New York, and the author was arrested for disseminating 'pornography.' With a foreword by the author. A reproduction of a New York court filing declaring the legality of this work is appended. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1947 (though 1933 date appears in book). ML #51.2. --- A Good-only copy, with brown splotches of spilled liquid to an interior page and to textblock edge, minor spotting to cloth and mild edgewear, else intact and sound.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; ix, 303, [8], [6, ads] pages. Good with no dust jacket .