Title: Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life Author: Wolfe, Thomas Place: New York Publisher: Scribner's Date: 1929 Description: vii, [1], 626 pp. 7½x5¼, dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt, color decorative jacket; housed in a custom red cloth chemise and ¼ red morocco & cloth slipcase with gilt-stamped and lettered spine & raised bands. First Edition, First Printing. Author's first book and an American literary landmark. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) is the most overtly autobiographical novelists of the major authors from the twentieth century. His reminiscences here were so frank and realistic that the book was originally banned in his own hometown's public library. First printing with publisher's seal present on the copyright page; first issue jacket with author’s portrait (from a photo by Doris Ulmann on the rear panel and printed. Johnston A2.1.a; Johnson A.I.A1. Lot Amendments Condition: Tears and chipping to jacket edges (just barely touching “Look” in title on spine), occasional slight fading; light shelf wear, a few rubs to cloth; related newspaper clipping tipped onto blank preliminary leaf (causing minor offsetting); still near fine, jacket about very good and quite scarce, protected in chemise and handsome slipcase. Item number: 186465
Title: Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life Author: Wolfe, Thomas Place: New York Publisher: Scribner's Date: 1929 Description: vii, [1], 626 pp. 7½x5¼, dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt, color decorative jacket; housed in a custom red cloth chemise and ¼ red morocco & cloth slipcase with gilt-stamped and lettered spine & raised bands. First Edition, First Printing. Author's first book and an American literary landmark. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) is the most overtly autobiographical novelists of the major authors from the twentieth century. His reminiscences here were so frank and realistic that the book was originally banned in his own hometown's public library. First printing with publisher's seal present on the copyright page; first issue jacket with author’s portrait (from a photo by Doris Ulmann on the rear panel and printed. Johnston A2.1.a; Johnson A.I.A1. Lot Amendments Condition: Tears and chipping to jacket edges (just barely touching “Look” in title on spine), occasional slight fading; light shelf wear, a few rubs to cloth; related newspaper clipping tipped onto blank preliminary leaf (causing minor offsetting); still near fine, jacket about very good and quite scarce, protected in chemise and handsome slipcase. Item number: 186465
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