[Rarebooks] FS: Signed First Edition of Pulitzer Prize winner: T.S. Stribling: THE STORE
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Tue Mar 4 10:20:51 EST 2008
From our new Internet-only Catalogue--MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, MOST
SIGNED--which will be posted on our website later today or tomorrow:
http://www.erols.com/agvent
It will include 125 books, nearly all new arrivals, with especially
interesting pieces by A. E. Coppard, T. F. Powys, and T. S. Stribling.
STRIBLING, T. S. THE STORE. Garden City/New York: Doubleday,
Doran & Company 1932. First Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
This copy not only SIGNED by the author but also with a fine
INSCRIPTION by him mentioning the Pulitzer: "This book
greatly/surprised my editor,/Harry Maule, by/taking the
Pulitzer/Prize. My wife nearly/didnt live over it./I was pleased/TS
Stribling/Dec 17 1940." Stribling was the first of two Alabama
authors to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, the other being
Harper Lee for TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Sunning to top edge and spine.
Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper but with superb inscription.
$2500.00
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