Search Results: Pulitzer Prize from Charles Agvent

London: Faber & Faber, (1948). First British Edition. Hardcover. Very mild foxing to the endpapers and slight soiling to the spine. Mild sunning to dustwrapper spine and the briefest of wear to the crown. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29b: 3000 copies printed, preceded by the American edition published the previous year which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

New York: Random House, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a bright, Fine dustwrapper and increasingly uncommon thus. Bloomfield A29: 3500 copies printed, preceding the English edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis of Leonard Bernstein's "Symphony, no. 2," this book is one of Auden's finest accomplishments.

New York: Random House, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name on front endpaper and copious but light pencil notes on rear endpaper. About Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with some darkening and soiling. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29: 3500 copies printed, precedes English edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis of Leonard Bernstein's "Symphony, no. 2," this book is one of Auden's finest accomplishments.

New York: Random House, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name on front endpaper. About Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with mild wear to spine tips and corners and a dampstain at the base of the spine mostly visible on a small part of the rear panel. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29: 3500 copies printed, precedes English edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis of Leonard Bernstein's "Symphony, no. 2," this book is one of Auden's finest accomplishments.

New York, n.d.. Letter. Creasing and toning of paper. Very Good. One-page handwritten note SIGNED on a 7-1/4" x 8" sheet of Hotel Gotham stationery to poet Isabel Conant. In full: "This will present Baroness [?], of whom I have told you." Gale, an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright, was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921 for the dramatization of her popular novel, MISS LULU BETT.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1927. First British Edition. Hardcover. Briefest of wear to the spine tips of the book. Dustwrapper with a long closed tear along the front flap joint (neatly masked by the mylar protector), chips at the spine tips but not affecting the lettering, and general edgewear with the spine darkened. About Fine in a scarce, Very Good example of the dustwrapper. Precedes the American edition by a few days. Winner of Wilder's first of three Pulitzer Prizes. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the the front endpaper: "For Mrs. Isaacs/with the affection/of one of her/boys/Thornton/Lawrenceville/November/1927." The recipient appears to be Edith Isaacs, editor of THEATRE ARTS magazine, whom Wilder befriended in the early 1920s while teaching at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. Isaacs offered much encouragement to Wilder, including recommending that he apply for a Guggenheim Fellowship in order to finish THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, for which he was declined.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a close to Fine slipcase with some soiling. Jean Charlot. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-7/8") bound in natural buckram with a silhouette frieze of the Bridge's doomed pedestrians stamped in black on both covers, backed in fine imported black morocco leather. Introduction by Granville Hicks. Illustrated with 16 full-color lithographs drawn directly on the plates by Jean Charlot and printed in seven colors. Copy #457 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1927. First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a scarce, close to Fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the head of the slightly darkened spine. Precedes the American edition by a few days, of this winner of Wilder's first of three Pulitzer Prizes. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For Mrs. Edward J. Pearson/with the regard of/Thornton Wilder/New York/Jan 16, 1931."

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. The book is slightly cocked. The dustwrapper has mild chipping to the spine tips and the upper front corner. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. First Trade Edition, with title page printed in green and black. Preceded by the "preliminary issue" of 21 copies and the London edition by a few days. Illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. Winner of Wilder's first of three Pulitzer Prizes, this copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page to "Dr. Samuel Rosenfeld/with the regards of/Thornton Wilder" and dated "New Hope, Penn./July 1948."

New York: The Heritage Press, (1962). Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Jean Charlot. Tall octavo (6-5/8" x 10-3/4") bound in blue and gray cloth with a silhouette frieze of the Bridge's doomed pedestrians stamped in black on both covers. Introduction by Granville Hicks. Illustrated with 16 color plates by Jean Charlot. A lovely reproduction of the Limited Editions Club version of this Pulitzer Prize winning book.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Small stain on the front pastedown from a previous bookplate. About Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine slipcase. Jean Charlot. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-7/8") bound in natural buckram with a silhouette frieze of the Bridge's doomed pedestrians stamped in black on both covers, backed in fine imported black morocco leather. Introduction by Granville Hicks. Illustrated with 16 full-color lithographs drawn directly on the plates by Jean Charlot and printed in seven colors. Copy #355 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with typical rubbing and edgewear. The play based on Wouk's Pulitzer Prize novel.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Small rubbed spot and nick at the head of the spine. Near Fine. George H. Jones. Decorated leather. Limited Edition reprint of this Pulitzer Prize winner SIGNED by the author with a previously unpublished one-page preface by him. Illustrated by George H. Jones with color plates.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1930). First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Fine, lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. Crane A14.1: one of 3870 copies printed from the plates of the Random House limited edition. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize. Laid in on an unruled index card is a fair copy AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a poem, "A Time To Talk," completely in Frost's hand and SIGNED by him at the conclusion with the dedication "For (looks like George but we don't think so) Bush." A comparison to the poem, first printed in MOUNTAIN INTERVAL and here printed on page 156 reveals that Frost has added a line in the copy he has made. After "Blade-end up and five feet tall," Frost has added "Like a sunflower stalk," which is not included in the printed poem. A fine and scarce example of an altered holograph poem by Frost.

New York: Random House, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean, largely unopened copy; browning to pastedowns and endpapers, as often the case, here more to the rear. Spine label with some rubbing and light chipping, also as almost always the case with this title. Very Good or better, as issued without dustwrapper or slipcase. Linen cloth with beveled edges and a brown leather spine label. Crane A14. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize. Copy #769 of 1000 beautifully printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press and SIGNED by Frost on the half-title page.

New York: Random House, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper.

New York: Random House, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with light wear at the spine head. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

New York: Random House, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. One of an unspecified limitation SIGNED by Styron on a tipped-in sheet.

New York: Random House, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. The person to whom the book is inscribed has written his name and address on the upper corner of the same page. Close to Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with light wear at the spine head. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. INSCRIBED "To ---/As ever, with/best wishes and/good fortune" and SIGNED by the author and by James Terry, dedicatee of the book, on the front free endpaper.

New York: Random House, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Light soiling to covers and sunning to the spine. Very Good or better in like slipcase. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this novelization of the slave revolt led by Nat Turner is still controversial 45 years later because of Styron's narrative from the perspective of an African-American slave. Copy #253 of 500 SIGNED by the author of this Limited First Edition.