Wolfe Thomas 1900 1938 (15 results)
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Published by New York : New Avon Library, 1944
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. Cover has rubbing, creases and light chips. Pages are yellowed.Laid-in picture of Wolfe from a newspaper.
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Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1991
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Condition: Very Good-plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A NEW THOMAS WOLFE DISCOVERY FROM THE AUTHOR'S PAPERS Published more than half a century after Thomas Wolfe's death, The Good Child's River presents previously unpublished material drawn from the author's surviving manuscripts and literary papers. Edited by Wolfe scholar Su…zanne Stutman, the volume offers readers a fresh opportunity to engage with the work of one of America's most ambitious literary voices and provides valuable insight into his creative process. Issued as part of the H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series, the book combines literary scholarship with broad reader appeal. The text is complemented by black-and-white illustrations and editorial commentary that place the work within the larger context of Wolfe's career and enduring influence on twentieth-century American literature. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Octavo. 9.25 inches; 191 pages with bibliography and appendixes. Publisher's cloth-backed boards in the original dust jacket. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. Part of the H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series. 1994 first edition edited by Suzanne Stutman. Second Printing. CONDITION: Very Good-Plus in a Fine dust jacket. Bindings are tight and secure. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Light age-toning and spotting to the textblock edges. Minimal shelf handling wear. Appears unread. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - Thomas Wolfe remains one of the defining figures of twentieth-century American literature. His expansive autobiographical novels and lyrical prose influenced generations of writers, including Ray Bradbury, Jack Kerouac, and Philip Roth. Published in 1994 from previously unpublished manuscripts, The Good Child's River demonstrates the continuing scholarly importance of Wolfe's archive and the ongoing effort to preserve and interpret his literary legacy. Although Thomas Wolfe's reputation rests largely upon major works such as Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, his surviving manuscripts continue to reveal new dimensions of his literary achievement. The Good Child's River preserves material that remained unpublished during Wolfe's lifetime, allowing readers to examine themes, imagery, and narrative techniques that occupied the author throughout his career. For collectors, the volume occupies an interesting place within the Wolfe canon. It serves both as a standalone literary work and as a window into the development of one of America's most celebrated modern writers. The careful editorial work and university press production further enhance its value as a reference and research source. ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Thomas Wolfe was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and emerged as one of the most significant American novelists of the twentieth century. His novels, including Look Homeward, Angel (1929) and Of Time and the River (1935), are noted for their emotional intensity, autobiographical foundations, and expansive prose style. Though he died at the age of thirty-seven, Wolfe left behind a substantial body of manuscripts that continued to generate posthumous publications and scholarly study for decades. SUBJECTS: Thomas Wolfe; American Literature; Southern Literature; Literary Manuscripts; University of North Carolina Press; Suzanne Stutman; Twentieth-Century Fiction; Posthumous Works; Literary Archives; North Carolina Authors, American Literature; Literary Fiction; Posthumous Publications; Literary Scholarship.
Published by Asheville, NC: William J. Cocke, 1973., 1973
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star seller[2], 34 pages plus covers. Staple-bound paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Green and white patterned paper covers with some toning. Interior pages are clean and binding is firm. A very good copy. Biography of novelist Thomas Wolfe summarized in the Introduction: "This work sets out some of the family background of Thomas Wolfe, I…t further describes the [William Cocke's] recollections of his acquaintance with Tom at North State Fitting School, Asheville, N.C. and Tom's experiences at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C. Tom came to Oxford University, England, Michaelmas Term, 1926 when the author of this work resided there as a North Carolina Rhodes Scholar. Tom was extensively entertained by the author while he was there and detail of Tom's sojourn there are described." William Johnston Cocke (1904-?) was a Rhodes scholar and prominent Asheville lawyer whose papers are now owned by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936
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Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.Second Story Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. First edition. Octavo, 93 pages. In Fair plus condition with a Poor dust jacket. Spine is brown with black print. Dust jacket has tears to all edges with large portion of front panel torn away, toning to spine, peripheral toning, smudging/shelf wear. Price unclipped: "$1.50". Boards in brown cloth with gold print on b…lack banner. Tear to spine head, peripheral toning, toning to front area where the dust jacket had been torn away. Text block has b&w photo (portrait) from news clipping pasted on to front flyleaf, tanning to endpapers. 1373528. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Published by New York, Harper, 1948, 1948
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Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star sellerStated First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 183 pages; Description: 183 p. Port. , facsim. 23 cm. Subjects: Wolfe, Thomas 1900-1938. 3 Kg.
Published by New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [Scribner], March 1962., 1962
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerApproximate twelfth printing ("per Scribner's "L" letter code upon copyright page; originally published 1935). [12], 912 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed and foxed; spine sunned/faded with 2.5cm deep chip at head; other small chips and nicks at edges; several long tears with verso tape repairs; front fl…ap is not price-clipped (dj utilizes same color design to front panel and spine as the original 1935 edition). Black cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front board; bumping and light wear at spine ends and board corners. Foxing to text block edges; past owner's ink stamps on top and bottom edges and repeated on foxed front and rear endpapers; interior leaves lightly bumped at bottom fore-edge corners but are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. OF TIME AND THE RIVER was Wolfe's second novel published as a sequel to his 1929 debut "Look Homeward, Angel.".
Published by Columbia, SC: Bostick & Thornley, Publishers, 1961., 1961
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star seller#55 of a limited edition of 750 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [2], 1-26, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 16cm. Original clear mylar dust jacket well rubbed with some soiling; rear flap only tenuously attached. Brown cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front board. Slight soiling and foxing to endpapers; non-authorial three-…line ink gift inscription on front free endpaper; a few minor spots of soiling to copyright page (i.e. page 2) but interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Limitation statement and Jonathan Daniels ink signature on page 3. Summarized on page 4 as "An address by Mr. Daniels to the Nineteenth Biennial Conference of the Southeastern Library Association in Asheville, North Carolina, October 14, 1960." {LitCrit-Shelf#1}.
Published by Columbia, SC: Bostick & Thornley, Publishers, 1961., 1961
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star seller#628 of a limited edition of 750 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [2], 1-26, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 16cm. Original clear mylar dust jacket rubbed; tears/nicks at flap fold ends. Brown cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front board. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Limitation statement and Jonathan Daniels i…nk signature on page 3. Summarized on page 4 as "An address by Mr. Daniels to the Nineteenth Biennial Conference of the Southeastern Library Association in Asheville, North Carolina, October 14, 1960." Laid-in at rear endpapers is undated (circa 1960-1970) pamphlet by Asheville Chamber of Commerce titled "Asheville's Famous Son Thomas Wolfe." {LitCrit-Shelf#2}.
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Published by New York, Harper, 1948, 1948
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Add to basketStated First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 183 pages; Description: 183 p. Port. , facsim. 23 cm. Subjects: Wolfe, Thomas 1900-1938. 1 Kg.
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Published by London : W. Heinemann, 1947
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Add to basketFirst Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii, 642 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; American literature 20th century. American fiction 20th century. Thomas Wolfe. 1 Kg.
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Published by Harper & brothers, New York ; London, [c1940], 1940
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Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.Joseph Valles - Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. viii, 743, [1] p. 22 cm LCCN 40027633 LC PS3545.O337 Y6 1940 " First edition" "9-0" "H-F" ; Novelist George Webber is driven from his hometown when his successful autobiographical novel infuriates the family and friends he has depicted in it ; black and red cloth with gold… lettering; some wear ; no dustjacket ; VG. Book.
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A western journal : a daily log of the great parks trip, June 20-July 2, 1938
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 ; note, Edward C Aswell, Agnes Lynch Starret ; map, Francis M. Hanson, cartouche, Jeannette C. Shirk
Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, [Pittsburgh], 1951, 1951
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Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.Joseph Valles - Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 1st printing] ; x, 72 pages : map (on lining papers), facsimiles ; 24 cm OCLC 478590 LCCN 51005284 LC F595 .W86 Dewey 917.8 ; red cloth, no dustjacket ; ex-lib, pocket, stamps ; documenting a fast-paced, 13-day, 4,000-mile road trip through the U.S. West. The journal, publi…shed posthumously in 1951, captures his impressions of national parks and landscapes, showcasing his poetic, impressionistic style. ; Wolfe traveled with friends in a white Ford, traveling through states like Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, visiting various national parks. renowned for vivid, lyrical descriptions of Western scenery, such as "vast, pale, lemon-mystic plain," alongside sharp observations of people and tourists at sites like Old Faithful. Written just months before his death, it serves as a snapshot of his final creative period ; spine sunned, else VG. Book.
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Published by Charles Scribner?s Sons, New York, 1963
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Deluxe Illustrated Edition. THOMAS WOLFE'S GREAT SOUTHERN EPIC IN A DELUXE ILLUSTRATED EDITION This handsome illustrated edition of Thomas Wolfe's towering autobiographical masterpiece, pairs the emotional intensity of Wolfe's prose with the dramatic black-and-white illustr…ations of Douglas W. Gorsline. Issued by Scribner's during the mid-century revival of Wolfe scholarship, this deluxe edition transforms the modern American classic into a visually ambitious literary object. Originally published in 1929, Look Homeward, Angel remains one of the defining coming-of-age novels of American literature. Through the fictionalized life of Eugene Gant, Wolfe reconstructed his youth in Asheville, North Carolina, creating a sweeping portrait of family, ambition, loneliness, memory, and the restless hunger for experience that would define much of twentieth-century Southern literature. PHYSICAL FEATURES: Publisher's cloth with gilt titles and decorative stamping; top edge stained dark blue. Deluxe Illustrated Edition / First Thus. Extensive black-and-white illustrations by Douglas W. Gorsline, appearing both full-page and throughout the text. Octavo; 9.5 inches tall; 662 pages. CONDITION: Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket - The bindings are tight and square. Text clean with light, even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The illustrated dust jacket priced at $10.00 shows small rubs at the upper spine corners and slight sun-fading to the spine. A handsome and highly presentable copy. Bibliographic Reference: Johnson A2.4.f - First Illustrated Thus. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - Look Homeward, Angel announced Thomas Wolfe as one of the major new voices of American literature. Drawing deeply from his own upbringing in Asheville, North Carolina, Wolfe transformed autobiography into mythic literary architecture, creating a sprawling emotional narrative unlike anything in American fiction at the time. The novel became foundational to Southern literary modernism and strongly influenced later writers including Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, and Philip Roth. Eugene Gant's restless longing for identity and meaning established a template for the twentieth-century American literary outsider. This 1963 illustrated edition reflects the period when Wolfe's reputation had become fully institutionalized within the American canon. Scribner's deluxe presentation, combined with Douglas Gorsline's expressive illustrations, elevated the book beyond standard reprint status into a collector-oriented literary production. Subjects: Thomas Wolfe, Southern Literature, Asheville North Carolina, American Modernism, Eugene Gant, Douglas W. Gorsline, Coming-of-Age Fiction, Literary Classics, Scribner's Editions, American Fiction, Southern Literature, American Modernism, Literary Fiction, Illustrated Literature, Bildungsroman. Illustrations by Douglas W. Gorsline. (illustrator).
Published by New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935, 1935
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Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United KingdomAdrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB
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Add to basketdj. First Edition. [Modern fiction] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[xii]; 912; [4], blank. With the Scribner's 'A' and issue point; page 466, 2 lines up 'me' for 'Eugene'. Publisher's black cloth blocked in green and gold, for-edge and tail untrimmed, cloth joint to first blank, dust-wrapper priced at $3.00.…Edges of text block toned, jacket with some edgewear, chipped at crown. A very good example of this autobiographical novel, being the sequel to 'Look Homeward, Angel'.
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Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935
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Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.Tavistock Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: NF/NF. A nice copy. [12], 304 pp. Crown 8vo. Brown cloth binding stamped with gilt. Orange & black dust jacket 1st edition (FPAA I, p. 417; Johnston A4.I.a1).
