Search Results: Pulitzer Prize from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

New York: Scribner, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; a moving novel set in France and Germany during the Second World War that was made into a streaming series for Netflix. 531 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The spine ends are a bit bumped and there is shelf wear at the flap folds of the dust jacket. Two stocks of paper were used to print the page block; one of them has tanned more than the other. The jacket does not have any prize stickers or emblems.

New York: John Day Company, 1934. Hardcover. Very good. Bright Ambush won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1935, when Wurdemann was only 24 years old, making her the youngest recipient of the award. [xvi], 76, [4] pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in the publisher's green cloth; lacking the uncommon dust jacket. This copy belonged to the Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen, with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. Several poems have blue pencil checks in the margin, sometimes next to the title; other times next to a specific line, like "But a brook that runs over and nibbles its shadow" (p. 63).

New York: The Viking Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. One of the great American plays, winner of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize for best play. First edition (first printing, with no later printings noted). In the correct first printing dust jacket, with no New York Drama Critics Circle award mention. A near fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket with light wear at the edges and a short tear at one flap fold. If you read the Internet, you will find a lot of bogus information about identifying the first edition of this book. But it is not actually hard. DOAS follows the usual conventions for Viking Press Books (with the statement "First published..." on the copyright page and no later printings noted). There is only one correct dust jacket, with a $2.50 price at the top of the front flap. All the stuff about orange boards, broken type on page 11; American Book-Stratford Press on the copyright page; Miller's photo on the back flap of the jacket; and the second S… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The first edition, first printing ("Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1936." with no other printings noted on the copyright page) of the great Civil War novel, turned into one of the most popular American films of all time. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. First edition. A very good copy in the original gray publisher's boards. Spine only slightly darkened. With a half-inch tear at the top of the spine cloth and an old ownership signature in pencil on the front free endpaper. An above average copy, but lacking the dust jacket. A FACSIMILE jacket is supplied to protect the book and make it look sweet on your shelves.

New York: Pantheon, 1986. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. The first volume of Spiegelman's holocaust tale, originally serialized in RAW magazine. Maus is probably the most critically acclaimed graphic novel. It was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992; to date, the only graphic novel so honored. A paperback original (the hardcover version was published years later; the book was reissued as "volume I" with an additional subtitle-"My Father Bleeds History" when the second volume was published, and that edition is often mistaken for this original first edition because the copyright page date did not change). 160 pages. First edition (the last line of the copyright page reads, "Manufactured in U.S.A. First Edition"). This is a very good copy, with light wear to the corners. Nicer than average. The book is very susceptible to shelf wear and fine copies are very scarce.

New York: Harper, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A novel based on the life of the author's grandfather who worked as a night watchman in the 1950s while lobbying Congress to protect Native American rights. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. This copy is signed on the title page by Louise Erdrich, which due to Covid travel restrictions the year it was published, is uncommon. This copy comes with the information card, written by Ann Patchett, from the Parnassus Books first edition club. Even if signed copies become more common in the future, copies signed at the time of publication, like this one, will never be common.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. A retelling, by Michener, of scenes from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, which was based on Michener's book Tales of the South Pacific. Really, for a kids book, that's a bit meta, don't you think? Illustrated in full color by Michael Hague. This is one of 250 numbered copies, signed by both Michener and Hague. Issued in green cloth and a slipcase covered in undyed cotton fabric. Tales of the South Pacific, the book, won the Pulitzer Prize. South Pacific the musical won ten Tony awards. South Pacific the film won an Oscar. South Pacific, the ocean, is where you can find Vanuatu, the island where all of these stories take place. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a slipcase that is slightly grubby, as usual, given that it seems specially designed to attract fingerprints and dust.