Eight volumes by Thomas Wolfe
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Author: Wolfe, Thomas
Title: Eight volumes by Thomas Wolfe
Place Published: New York & Chicago
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Date Published: Various dates
Description:
Author: Wolfe, Thomas
Title: Eight volumes by Thomas Wolfe
Place Published: New York & Chicago
Publisher:
Date Published: Various dates
Description:
8 volumes. (8vo), various bindings; mostly cloth and boards, dust jackets. First Editions.
A selection of first editions by Thomas Wolfe, a major and revered American writer of the early twentieth century until his life was cut short by tubercular meningitis in 1938. After his death, William Faulkner said that Wolfe may have been the greatest talent of their generation for aiming higher than any other writer.
Includes:
From Death to Morning. Cloth, dust jacket. First State. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
From Death to Morning. Cloth (no dust jacket). First State. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth. Cloth, dust jacket. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
The Web and the Rock. Cloth, dust jacket. Jacket price clipped; bottom corner of top board bumped. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939.
The Hills Beyond. Cloth, two copies of dust jacket. Jackets price-clipped. New York & London: Harper & Brothers. [1941].
A Stone, A Leaf, A Door: Poems. Cloth, dust jacket. With the decorative bookplate of June Berry. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945.
Mannerhouse: A Play in a Prologue and Three Acts. Cloth with spine label, dust jacket; publisher's slipcase. Wear and some tape repairs to slipcase. No. 495 of 500 copies. New York Harper and Brothers 1948.
Frings, Ketti. Look Homeward, Angel; a Play. Based on the novel by Thomas Wolfe. Cloth and boards, dust jacket. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.
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Varying degrees of general light wear to jackets and bindings, jackets with edgewear, occasional chips and minor closed tears; all volumes and jackets very good.
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Eight volumes by Thomas Wolfe
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