Thomas Wolfe and His Family
by Mabel Wolfe Wheaton; LeGette Blythe
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 1961. G/G. Stated First Edition. First printing with no other printings stated. The book is Good. Moderately cocked but pages tightly bound. Light bumps to front corners, spine ends pushed and mild soiling to cloth boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages are age-toned. Foxing to endpapers. Black and white photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($4.95) and Good. Chipping to spine head and corners and light soiling (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 336 Pages. 5¾ x 8½" tall.
Thomas Wolfe of Asheville, North Carolina, achieved international recognition as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century and, through his novels, immortalized others in his family and town. But while much of what Wolfe wrote about his family was factual, a great deal, too, was fiction. Before her death in 1958, Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, his sister, accomplished a lifelong ambition: to reveal the truth about the rest of her family and to show there were others that mattered. In intimate, personal glimpses, LeGette Blythe, a writer and friend of the Wolfe family, has culled the extensive written notes of Mrs. Wheaton together with a great number of tape recordings, to reveal the family as they really were.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3814
- Title
- Thomas Wolfe and His Family
- Author
- Mabel Wolfe Wheaton; LeGette Blythe
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Pages
- 336
- Size
- 5.75 x 8.5
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Keywords
- north carolina, family
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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