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WOLFE, THOMAS. 1900-1938.
13 FIRST EDITIONS including 11 posthumously published works:

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
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WOLFE, THOMAS. 1900-1938.

13 FIRST EDITIONS including 11 posthumously published works:
1. From Death to Morning. New York: Scribner's, 1935.
2. The Story of a Novel. New York: Scribner's, 1936.
3. The Web and the Rock. New York, Harper, 1939.
4. The Face of a Nation. New York: Scribner's, 1939.
5. A Note on Experts: Dexter Vespasian Joyner. New York: House of Books, 1939.
6. You can't go Home again. New York: Harper, 1940.
7. The Hills Beyond. New York: Harper, 1941.
8. Gentleman of the Press. Chicago: Black Archer Press, 1942.
9. Letters to his Mother. New York: Scribner's, 1943.
10. A Stone, a Leaf, a Door. Poems. New York: Scribner's, 1945.
11. Mannerhouse, A Play. New York, Harper, 1948.
12. A Western Journal. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1951.
13. Carolina Folk-Plays. New York: Holt, 1924. Includes Thomas Wolfe's play on North Carolina mountain life, "The Return of Buck Gavin."
All in publisher's cloth mostly with pictorial dust jackets.
Minor wear to ends of spine panels, otherwise fine.

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