The Pulitzer prize-winning The Store is the second novel of Stribling's monumental trilogy set in the author's native Tennessee Valley region of north Alabama. The action begins in 1884, the year in which Grover Cleveland became the first Democratic president since the end of the Civil War; and it centers about the emergence of a figure of wealth in the city of Florence. In The Store , Stribling succeeds in presenting the essence of an age through the everyday lives of his characters. In the New Yorker , reviewer ...
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The Pulitzer prize-winning The Store is the second novel of Stribling's monumental trilogy set in the author's native Tennessee Valley region of north Alabama. The action begins in 1884, the year in which Grover Cleveland became the first Democratic president since the end of the Civil War; and it centers about the emergence of a figure of wealth in the city of Florence. In The Store , Stribling succeeds in presenting the essence of an age through the everyday lives of his characters. In the New Yorker , reviewer Robert M. Coates compared Stribling with Mark Twain in his ability to convey the "very life and movement" of a small Southern town: "Groups move chatting under the trees or stand loitering in the courthouse square, townsfolk gather at political 'speakings' and drift homeward separately afterward; always, in their doings, one has the sense of a whole community surrounding them, binding them together." Gerald Bullet wrote in The New Statesman and Nation that the novel "is a first-rate book...filled with diverse and vital characters; and much of it cannot be read without that primitive excitement, that eagerness to know what comes next, which is, after all, the triumph of the good story teller."
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Very good. Limited edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Light wear to the boards. Very tight binding. Clena interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Illustrated by Howard Rogers. Near Fine. 1933 Pulitzer Prize winner. Limited edition. Octavo, fully bound in burgundy leather with gilt lettering and design, raised bands along spine, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, sewn-in ribbon bookmark. About fine.; 512 pages.
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Good. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear and fading on the boards. Binding is a bit exposed. Text is clear of markings and notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Like New. Size: 9x6x2; [Pulitzer Prize Award Winner. ] Bound in full leather. Stamped with 22kt gold gilt design on cover front, back and spine. All edges gold. Silk moire fabric end papers. Satin ribbon place holder. Fine binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. For more than 30 years, the Franklin Library has been the standard for finely bound, profusely gilt classic leather bindings. "The Pulitzer prize-winning The Store is the second novel of Stribling's monumental trilogy set in the author's native Tennessee Valley region of north Alabama. The action begins in 1884, the year in which Grover Cleveland became the first Democratic president since the end of the Civil War; and it centers about the emergence of a figure of wealth in the city of Florence."-Barnes and Noble.
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1932 on both title and copyright page, but lacking the first edition statement necessary for a first printing. Dust Jacket flap says Third Edition. BOOK IS VERY GOOD TO NEAR-FINE FLAWED ONLY BY SLIGHT PARTIAL SUNNING TO BOARDS AT EDGES. NO WRITING OR NAMES. TEXT CLEAN, BINDING TIGHT. DUST JACKET IS GOOD+ WITH ORIGINAL $3.50 PRICE, ONE QUARTE-SIZE CORNER CHIP AT BOTTOM OF FRONT PANEL, AND BASICALLY COMPLETE WITH SCATTERED, EDGE WEAR, AND SMALL CHIPS, AND TEARS.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition, first printing and a fantastic copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Signed by T. S. Stribling and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. 571 pp. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with paper labels on spine and front cover. Near Fine or better with thin sunnign to top and bottom edges of cloth near spine, light biopredation to spine label though both labels remain very sharp and bright, faint foxing to textblock edge. Tape ghosts to front and rear free endpaper affecting author's inscription. In a Near Fine original dust jacket with correct price of $2.50 intact, light wear, light offsetting to the blindside from paper labels. A very nice copy, uncommon in such superlative condition. Laid in is a two-page TLS by Stribling, dated Dec 14 56. With one horizontal and two vertical folds. A remarkably philosophical letter. "It is amazing how the contemplation of imaginary life in novel writing with develop theories and it may be thuths [sic] which you never knew before. I hope you see that I could easily go off into a mystical strain here and suggest that all of us are minor demiurges and create our own worlds. I might even go on and say that those worlds we creats [sic] are as real as any other since they are composed of energy as are all the rest. But why should I blur a Christmas letter with a suggestion of the factuality of mental and spiritual things? "
