To a Greenwich Village bar, "The Golden Spur", comes young Jonathan Jamison of Silver City, Ohio, seeking the identity of his true father. Innocent and bewildered, he wanders among the raffish crowd.
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To a Greenwich Village bar, "The Golden Spur", comes young Jonathan Jamison of Silver City, Ohio, seeking the identity of his true father. Innocent and bewildered, he wanders among the raffish crowd.
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Near Fine. First paperback edition. Pages a little toned, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Powell's last novel and one of her best: midwesterner comes to the big city to uncover his true father when he learns his birth is the result of his mother's brief but wild sojourn in Greenwich Village. Powell applies her wit and furious action ensues. A nice copy.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Dawn Powell (1896-1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays. Her work was praised by Robert Benchley in The New Yorker and in 1939 she was signed as a Scribner author where Maxwell Perkins, famous for his work with many of her contemporaries, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, became her editor. A 1963 nominee for the National Book Award, she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Marjorie Peabody Waite Award for lifetime achievement in literature the following year. A friend to many literary and arts figures of her day, including author John Dos Passos, critic Edmund Wilson, and poet E.E. Cummings, Powell's work received renewed interest after Gore Vidal praised it in a 1987 editorial for The New York Review of Books. Since then, the Library of America has published two collections of her novels. Powell's first editions, both US and UK editions, are relatively uncommon. This copy of the UK first is near fine in red cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Very slight sunning at the top of the spine is the only issue. No other marks or damage. The unclipped DJ is also near fine, with just slight edge wear. TN.
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Good in Good jacket. New York: Viking Press, 1962. 1st printing. Good only ex-regional library copy with ink-stamp remnants, scuffs and tape shadows to both endpapers. Full yellow cloth binding with dark tape shadows on front and rear. 274pp. Fair only dust jacket is chipped and worn, toned, with original $3.95 price intact, offered in a new mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First English edition. Fine in about fine dust jacket with a little rubbing on the front panel, and a small ink stroke on the rear panel. Midwesterner comes to the big city to uncover his true father and learns his birth is the result of his mother's brief but wild sojourn in Greenwich Village. Powell applies her wit and furious action ensues. A late novel by one of America's best but least known authors, who has of late undergone a rediscovery.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First English edition. Fine in about fine dust jacket with very slight toning on the rear panel. Midwesterner comes to the big city to uncover his true father and learns his birth is the result of his mother's brief but wild sojourn in Greenwich Village. Powell applies her wit and furious action ensues. A late novel by one of America's best but least known authors, who has of late undergone a rediscovery.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Fine in price-clipped very good or better dust jacket with a modest scrape and chip on the spine. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Midwesterner comes to the big city to uncover his true father when he learns his birth is the result of his mother's brief but wild sojourn in Greenwich Village. Powell applies her wit and furious action ensues. A late novel by one of America's best but least known authors.
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Fine jacket. First English edition. A trifle foxed, still easily fine in fine dustwrapper with some foxing on the rear panel. Laid in is the remnant of a wrap-around band with part of an Edmund Wilson review. Midwesterner comes to the big city to uncover his true father and learns his birth is the result of his mother's brief but wild sojourn in Greenwich Village. Powell applies her wit and furious action ensues. A late novel by one of America's best but least known authors, who has recently undergone a rediscovery.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a little lightrubbing on the spine. laid in. Midwesterner comes to the big city to uncover his true father when he learns his birth is the result of his mother's brief but wild sojourn in Greenwich Village. Powell applies her wit and furious action ensues. A late novel by one of America's best but least known authors. A very nice copy.
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Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author. 274 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Robert Jonas. Her 16th book and last novel. A young man from Ohio comes to Greenwich Village to find out mother's past and if her youthful indiscretion might be responsible for his birth. A long inscription on the half title page to Sylvia Salmi (1909-1977)and her second husband Herbert Solow. Salmi was a prominent American photographer who during the 30's & 40's took many portraits of famous Americans. Near fine book in a near fine dust jacket with the spine lightly faded and light wear to the corners. A beautiful copy of a unique book.