[Rarebooks] FS - Mannerhouse, 481/500, Thomas Wolfe

[Michael Watson]

FS - Mannerhouse, 481/500, Thomas Wolfe

Wolfe, Thomas
Mannerhouse, : A Play in a Prologue and Three Acts\
Harper & Brothers, 1948, Limited/Numbered Edition, Hardcover, 8vo, 183 
pp., F/ F

Small bookplate to front endpaper. Slipcase has rubbed fore corners, 
scuffs to top and bottom, fore edges of slipcase splayed outward.

Copy 481 of 500. Bound in is a twelve page facsimile of a holograph 
letter by Wolfe: his comments on this play, written to Miss Lewisohn of 
Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. First publishing of this letter from 
the Thomas Wolfe Collection of the Harvard College Library. Includes 
transcript of the letter, which is a fortunate inclusion given Wolfe's 
illegible handwriting. Black and white frontis of Wolfe. Fore edge 
uncut. Black cloth over boards. Paper spine label. A lovely, Fine copy 
in a Near Fine DJ.  Slipcase is clean, unsplit, and VG. $125.00 USD

Additional $5.00 to ship in the 48 US states, others please inquire.

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