Continuing the re-release of the late Dawn Powell's acclaimed fiction, this is the story of an engagingly amoral hero who desires to replace his real father with an imagined one. Using his mother's diaries, he seeks the off-beat artist or writer whose youthful indiscretion he believes he might have been--in the process coming to grips with his parentage and himself. Originally published in 1962.
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Continuing the re-release of the late Dawn Powell's acclaimed fiction, this is the story of an engagingly amoral hero who desires to replace his real father with an imagined one. Using his mother's diaries, he seeks the off-beat artist or writer whose youthful indiscretion he believes he might have been--in the process coming to grips with his parentage and himself. Originally published in 1962.
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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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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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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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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. A faint dampstain to the bottom of the boards near the spine else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a fair size chip at the base of the spine. Inscribed by the author: "To Andrea Grebieu with my very best wishes, Dawn Powell." 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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Near 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 close friend, Ann Honeycutt (1902-1989). Honeycutt was an American author who wrote for the New Yorker. Near fine book with a touch of shelf wear to the bottom edge in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy of a unique book. Fine book in a fine dust jacket.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a couple of tiny nicks and tears. Inscribed by Powell to Jackie Rice on the half title: "with love these many generations. Dawn. 5 Oct 1962." Although not designated as such, from the library of Jacqueline Miller Rice, the wife of Black Mountain College painter Dan Rice, and perhaps Powell's closest friend over the last decade of her life. Rice was present at Powell's deathbed, and was Powell's literary executrix. Unfortunately her neglect of that estate resulted, among other things, in the burial of Powell on Hart Island, New York City's "potter's field", as well as for the correspondence of many scholars interested in Powell and her works to go unanswered. 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 novel by one of America's best but least known authors, with an important association. A very nice copy.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1962. 274 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Powell's final novel, The Golden Spur (1962), in which she drew on her time spent among painters at the famed Cedar Tavern for an affectionate if pointed satire on Manhattan's art world. EB; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 274 pages.
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Fine. 067034480X. Nearf fine in near fine dust jacket. (Faint sticker impression at upper edge of front paste down. A few short edge tears & toning to the spine on jacket Which is perfectly readable. Trace of shelf wear at spine ends. ) Better than average copy of Powell's final book.
