Mabel Wolfe Wheaton (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Good+ condition book, unmarked, in VG- condition dustjacket, not price-clipped. [1206].

Condition: Good. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961., 1961. Good. - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in light gray cloth titled in red on the spine, in an illustrated white dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped. The edges of the price-clipped and soiled dust jacket are chipped with several small tears. 336 pages. Good.

Cloth. Condition: Good in Good DJ. First edition. 8vo, 336 pp. Covers dull, head of spine slightly pulled, page edges tanned, previous owner name. Jacket sunned,edgeworn.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Doubleday, New York, 1961. Hardcover, 336 pp. 1st edition. With black & white photo illustrations. The sister of American author Thomas Wolfe writes to separate fact from fiction, as his novels - Especially 'Look Homeward, Angel' - drew heavily upon his relatives for inspiration. Good with a slight backward skew to the spine, damp stain to jacket and rear board. Jacket is wrinkled with a sunned spine. Original price intact on front flap. In a new mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed. A Good copy in gray cloth, in a lightly edge-worn Good dust jacket sun-faded at the spine (but not price-clipped). Tanning to the outer edges of the text block and to the endpapers, clean/unmarked within, and not ex-library. Signed by LeGette Blythe at the front endpaper. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. First printing with no other printings stated. The book is Good. Moderately cocked but pages tightly bound. Light bumps to front corners, spine ends pushed and mild soiling to cloth boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages are age-toned. Foxing to endpapers. Black and white photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($4.95) and Good. Chipping to spine head and corners and light soiling (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 336 Pages. 5¾ x 8½" tall. Thomas Wolfe of Asheville, North Carolina, achieved international recognition as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century and, through his novels, immortalized others in his family and town. But while much of what Wolfe wrote about his family was factual, a great deal, too, was fiction. Before her death in 1958, Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, his sister, accomplished a lifelong ambition: to reveal the truth about the rest of her family and to show there were others that mattered. In intimate, personal glimpses, LeGette Blythe, a writer and friend of the Wolfe family, has culled the extensive written notes of Mrs. Wheaton together with a great number of tape recordings, to reveal the family as they really were.

First edition 336pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (corners sl bruised, spine head and foot lightly bumped) in very good d/w (lightly rubbed, edgewear, sunned spine w. lightly scuffed head).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This nice copy of the First Printing is from the library of David Herbert Donald . Donald won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Thomas Wolfe , Look HOMEWARD . It was his second Pulitzer -- the first was for his biography of Charles Sumner . Of course , Donald was also a celebrated biographer of Abraham Lincoln . Donald has made a few marks neatly in pencil in the text of this copy . Mabel Wolfe Wheaton was Thomas Wolfe's sister . Before her death in 1958 she wrote her story of the family history in order to show how much of her brother's story of the family in his fiction was misleading . Legette Blythe , a friend of the family , used Mabel's manuscript , her notes and recordings on conversations with Mable , and her own knowledge of the family to produce this book . Illustrated with the family's photos .The flap of the dust jacket is price clipped . The dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover .