8vo. Half-title. Original two-tone blue cloth gilt (spine slightly faded, some light wear to gilt); in unclipped dust jacket (some minor chipping, creasing, or rubbing to extremities, a few old cello tape repairs on verso). Provenance: Harwood? Kittom (signature).

FIRST EDITION OF SCHULBERG'S FIRST NOVEL, SIGNED BY SCHULBERG on title-page. Writing for the New York Times, James MacBride notes that Schulberg's novel is "brilliantly effective because it is completely of this time, expressing the beliefs and hopes that begin to stand out in this period, marked in it by the threat of complex defeat....[What Makes Sammy Run?] is unquestionably one of the most interesting and promising first novels to appear in several years" (March 30, 1941). One of the great Hollywood novels which has yet to be adapted to film.