Marlowe, Gabriel.

I Am Your Brother.

      New York:: Harcourt Brace, 1935. Black cloth with lavender diagonal stripes, spine titles in yellow. 289 pages. A rather scarce book which is surprising given its cult status in the 1930's, this was apparently one of only three books written by Marlowe, the other two even less common than this one. He is credited in some places with the script for the 1934 motion picture, "David Copperfield", although the official credit went to Hugh Walpole. Both Marlowe, who was Jewish and disappeared in Norway in 1940, and this book deserve a better audience today. The Time Magazine review suggested it was the literary equivalent of the then avant garde Surrealism of Dali. For exposing the seediest and sadest grotesques, it rivals West's "Miss Lonelyhearts", but it fascinates more than it repels. The book is soundly bound, clean and unmarked with barely a hint of edge wear; the paper is ever so slightly toned. The jacket is largely intact with minor loss of material at tips, less than a square inch missing adjacent to the bottom of the rear flap fold, a much smaller chip at top of that fold, a small triangular piece missing at top rear panel, and a tiny chip at the middle of the spine. The rear flap fold has a largely closed tear of about 3 + inches.. Near Fine in Very Good - Dustjacket