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All the King's Men (Modern Library #170.2)
by WARREN, Robert Penn
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1964]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel featuring his Governor Willie Stark character, a charismatic Southern politician. Stark is an obvious representation of Louisiana's former Governor Huey Long (though the author later denied this connection). The principal character is the governor's aide, the sardonic Jack Burden. With an introduction by the author. This work was named to the Modern Library list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. --- In Toledano spine 12 / blue cloth / blindstamped ml cover device / gilt-stamped spine titling / Fujita olive & yellow endpapers / jacket style l, verso is blank. Likely published c.1964 (though 1953 date appears in book). ML #170.2. --- With prior owner's signature to sticker applied to half title and slight discoloration to cloth, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound copy. Price-clipped jacket with a little yellowing to spine, some foxing to back panel and mild rubbing to extremities, else bright, intact and in removable, archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; x, 464, (2, ads) pages .
Synopsis
All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren, first published in 1946. The novel's title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. In 1947 Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men. It was adapted for film in 1949 and 2006; the 1949 version won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87180
- Title
- All the King's Men (Modern Library #170.2)
- Author
- WARREN, Robert Penn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1964]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Pulitzer, Nobel, Booker, Nat Book Award Prize;
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- Spine
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- 12mo
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- Device
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- Half Title
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- Reprint
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- Good+
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- Verso
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