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NIGHT RIDER
by Warren, Robert Penn
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First edition of Robert Penn Warren's first novel, the story of a young man's fall from grace during the Kentucky Tobacco Wars. Literary critic, poet, and novelist, Robert Penn Warren contributed to a number of genres with ease. NIGHT RIDER, his first published novel, thematically anticipates his later works: it focuses on life in the US South, moral quandries that lead to tragic irony, and the corruption of leaders, leaving characters to struggle against the inevitable. Warren would go on to win Pulitzer Prizes for both a novel and and for poetry - the only person to have won in both categories. This is an attractive copy of an important work in Warren's oeuvre. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original grey cloth boards with red text. Original unclipped ($2.50) pictorial dust jacket. 460 pages. Jacket with light edgewear, some sunning to spine; two tape repairs to verso. Binding with a touch of edgewear, a bit of bumping to spine ends. Sharp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44769
- Title
- NIGHT RIDER
- Author
- Warren, Robert Penn
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- 20th century,US American
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
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Silver Spring, Maryland
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Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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