The Just And The Unjust.

JAMES GOULD COZZENS

Publication: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942, New York

First edition. Correct $2.50 price on dust jacket. A fine, bright copy in a fine, bright dust jacket. An intensely dramatic view of the characters involved in a murder trial - police, victim, lawyers, and judge - set in a fictional rural town and told over the course of three days. The novel was well-received by the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and was featured by the Book of the Month Club, though it caught the ire of J. Edgar Hoover, who Cozzens disliked intensely. Hoover wrote Cozzens, calling him a "son of a bitch" for portraying a heavy-handed FBI in his novel; he opened a file on Cozzens, citing the novel for containing "unfounded insinuations and accusations" about the Bureau (cf.Wolfe, Alan. "Writers and Agents." The Washington Post, March 22, 1992). A distinguished copy of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone novel. An attractive copy.

Inventory Number: 50463