[Rarebooks] FS: Book MANUSCRIPT by the First Author to Win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

[Charles Agvent]

POOLE, Ernest. TWO DRAFTS OF THE MANUSCRIPT for WITH EASTERN EYES. 
Franconia, NH, n. d. [1926]. First Edition. Two drafts of a manuscript 
on 8-1/2" x 11" paper, one incomplete and the other complete, together 
460 pages housed in a gilt-lettered green morocco-backed cloth clamshell 
box. The earlier draft, comprising about the first third of the book, is 
on the recto of 121 yellow sheets, 48 of which are in pencil in the 
author's holograph, the balance being typescript heavily corrected by 
Poole in pencil. The complete draft is a typescript on the recto of 339 
pages with extensive manuscript corrections in pencil throughout. Both 
versions contain title pages SIGNED and titled by the author on one and 
initialed on the other, as well as manuscript instructions by Poole to 
his secretary, who did the typing, and both (but especially the first) 
also contain numerous cancelled passages and holograph interpolations. 
Ernest Poole, greatly influenced by Jacob Riis's HOW THE OTHER HALF 
LIVES, worked as a journalist campaigning for social reforms including 
an end to child labor. His novel, HIS FAMILY, won the very first 
Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1918. Serving as a correspondent for the 
SATURDAY EVENING POST in Russia, he reported on that nation's revolution 
to an American public eager to understand. He expanded those articles 
into two books, both published in 1918: "THE DARK PEOPLE": RUSSIA'S 
CRISIS and THE VILLAGE: RUSSIAN IMPRESSIONS. The novel, WITH EASTERN 
EYES, published in 1927, is about New England life seen through the 
Russian eyes of Pavel Boganoff, an astronomer who has come to visit a 
fellow astronomer in New Hampshire. Paper browning and a bit brittle. 
Very Good in a Near Fine clamshell box. (#019376)        $2,000.00

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