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The Town
by RICHTER, Conrad
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Hardcover. Illustrations by Conrad Hack. Small 4to. Full brown calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. 362pp. All edges gilt. Illustrations, brown moire silk endpapers, sewn-in brown satin page marker. Fine. Perfect and tight limited (unspecified) first of this calfbound edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1951 novel (first published by Knopf in 1950), third in "The Awakening Land" trilogy. This exceptional copy bears a unique frontispiece: Tipped in facing the title page is a superb content Typed Note Signed from Richter, 1p, 5½" X 8½", Pine Grove, PA, 22 May 1951. Addressed to Arnold Gates (1914-91, noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar). Fine. Cordial note to an acquaintance who had sent congratulations on his being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "The Town," Richter replies: "We returned home to find more mail and telegrams than I can easily answer, but I want to write and thank you for your kind letter of congratulations," adding, "It's a pleasure to hear that you now have acquired a wife, a child and a house...." Boldly signed in full. Book is housed in the Franklin Library's thin card stock slipcase with gold foil label.
Synopsis
The Town is a novel written by Conrad Richter in 1950. It is the third installment of his Awakening Land trilogy, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50084
- Title
- The Town
- Author
- RICHTER, Conrad
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1978
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; American Literature;
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- Calf
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