The Wicked Pavilion
by Powell, Dawn
Ten years after Steerforth launched the Dawn Powell revival, her five best-selling novels are being reissued in newly designed Zoland Books editions with Reading Group Guides inside.Late in life, out of luck and fashion, Henry James predicted a day when all of his neglected novels would kick off their headstones, one after another. As the twentieth century came to an end, the works of Dawn Powell managed the same magnificent task.When Powell died in 1965, virtually all her books were out of print. Not a single historical survey of American literature mentioned her, even in passing. And so she slept, seemingly destined to be forgotten – or, to put it more exactly, never to be remembered. How things have changed! Twelve of Powell’s novels have now been reissued, along with editions of her plays, diaries, letters, and short stories. She has joined the Library of America, admitted to the illustrious company of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Adams, Frederick Douglass, and Edith Wharton. She is taught in college and read with delight on vacation. For the contemporary poet and novelist Lisa Zeidner, writing in The New York Times Book Review, Powell “is wittier than Dorothy Parker, dissects the rich better than F. Scott Fitzgerald, is more plaintive than Willa Cather in her evocation of the heartland, and has a more supple control of satirical voice than Evelyn Waugh.” For his part, Gore Vidal offered a simple reason for Powell’s sudden popularity: “We are catching up to her.”Tim Page, Powell’s biographer, from his new foreword to My Home Is Far Away, Dawn Powell was born in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, on November 28, 1896, the second of three daughters. Her father was a traveling salesman, and her mother died a few days after Dawn turned seven. After enduring great cruelty at the hands of her stepmother, Dawn ran away at the age of thirteen and eventually arrived at the home of her maternal aunt, who served hot meals to travelers emerging from the train station across the street. Dawn worked her way through college and made it to New York. There she married a young advertising executive and had one child, a boy who suffered from autism, then an unknown condition.Powell referred to herself as a “permanent visitor” in her adopted Manhattan and brought to her writing a perspective gained from her upbringing in Middle America. She knew many of the great writers of her time, and Diana Trilling famously said it was Dawn “who really says the funny things for which Dorothy Parker gets credit.” Ernest Hemingway called her his “favorite living writer.” She was one of America’s great novelists, and yet when she died in 1965 she was buried in an unmarked grave in New York’s Potter’s Field. Her books live, and with these newly designed editions, with their reading group guides inside, more people than ever before will be able to hear Dawn’s distinctive voice.
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by POWELL, Dawn
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- 1964
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(New York): An Avon Book, 1964. Softcover. Near Fine. First paperback edition. Near fine with the pages browned as usual but not brittle. Inscribed by the author: "Heterosexually yrs, Dawn Powell." Powell has also noted "Hey!" with an arrow pointing to the first line of promotional copy in the book, which starts "A kind of heterosexual *The Group*...… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE WICKED PAVILION
by Powell, Dawn
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- 1954
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Covina, California, USA
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. A novel that lays bare its characters' illusions about love and success against the backdrop of the Café Julien, a relic of a bygone era in the history of Greenwich Village. Octavo. Original decorative paper-covered boards over a red cloth spine, with black titles. Very light bumping… Read more about this item Item Price
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by Powell, Dawn
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- 1954
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid clean copy, some spotting/mottling to spine cloth, extremely light bumping to a couple of corners; jacket moderately edgeworn, some minor chipping and slight paper loss at spine ends (no loss of text), wrinkling/creasing along bottom edge of rear panel]. INSCRIBED ("To… Read more about this item Item Price
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by POWELL, Dawn
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- 1954
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(New York): An Avon Book, 1954. Softcover. Fair. Reprint. A fair but good reading copy with the pages browned as usual but not too brittle and scuffing to the wrappers. Item Price
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THE WICKED PAVILION.
by Powell, Dawn; Introduction by Gore Vidal.
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New York:: Vintage Books,, (1990). Near fine (remainder line, light toning to pages). 1st trade paperback printing. A "novel of Washington Square" - the story of the habitues of the Cafe Julien in Greenwich Village. Introduction by Gore Vidal who called Powell "one of our most brilliant - certainly most witty - novelists, whose literary reputation… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Wicked Pavilion
by POWELL, Dawn
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- 1954
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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NZ$579.53
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in attractive, very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the crown, and at the top of the rear panel. A scarce novel, considered by many to be among her best. Item Price
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Skyway, Washington, USA
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. Early printing hardcover. Patterned paper over boards with quarter red cloth binding. Square and unmarked with toning to upper page edges. 306pp. Jacket is fair only, very worn, with large chips, tears, with 3.50 price intact on front flap. In a protective mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - … Read more about this item Item Price
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The Wicked Pavilion
by POWELL, Dawn
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- Used - Fine
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- 1954
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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NZ$1,076.27
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A scarce novel, considered by many to be among her best. Cheaply produced, this is one of the best copies we've seen. Item Price
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- 1954
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First edition, first printing. Fine with a touch of soiling to the topstain, in a Very Good dust jacket with price intact, wear to spine ends, a vintage price sticker to the rear panel, two small stains to the rear flap fold with a bit of associated thinning. A… Read more about this item Item Price
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by POWELL, Dawn
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- 1954
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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NZ$6,623.20
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A touch of rubbing else fine in very good or better Reginald Marsh-illustrated dust jacket with a couple of small chips and tears. Inscribed by Powell to an author of travel books, adventurer, and Powell's longtime friend and drinking buddy Hassoldt Davis: "To Hassoldt (Hello-Goodbye) Davis with fondest thoughts.… Read more about this item Item Price
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(New York): An Avon Book, 1964. Softcover. Fair. First paperback edition. Pages toned, some chipping on the margins on a few pages and on the wrappers, a poor but mostly sound copy. Inscribed by the author to author and close friend Hannah Green (author of *I Never Promised You a Rose Garden*): "Hannah - Wow - Pow" with… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Wicked Pavilion
by POWELL, Dawn
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- 1954
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Item Price
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The Wicked Pavilion
by POWELL, Dawn
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1990
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- Softcover
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- 9780679726852
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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New York: Vintage Books / Random House, 1990. Softcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Trade paperback. Introduction by Gore Vidal. Remainder mark, covers lightly rubbed with light sunning to the rear wrap, very good. A novel set in Greenwich Village. Item Price
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The Wicked Pavilion
by POWELL, Dawn
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1982
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- Softcover
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- 9781883642396
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 1982. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition thus. Trade paperback. Front cover lightly flared, near fine. A novel set in Greenwich Village. Item Price
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The Wicked Pavilion
by POWELL, Dawn
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- 1954
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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NZ$910.69
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine Reginald Marsh-illustrated dust jacket with a short tear and a little rubbing. A lovely copy of this scarce novel, seldom found in this condition. Item Price
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The Wicked Pavilion
by POWELL, Dawn
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- 1964
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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NZ$57.95
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(New York): Avon, 1964. Softcover. Very Good. First paperback edition. A few pages with a small tear at foredge, bottom edge with remainder marks, spine lightly sunned, still very good. A novel set in Greenwich Village. Item Price
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THE WICKED PAVILION.
by POWELL, Dawn.
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Taunton, Somerset, GBR
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W.H. Allen, London. 1955. 1st. edn. hardback. Not in orig. binding, rebound & reinforced for a library but NO stamps or other such damage. Page edges a bit tanned & top edges dusty. VG. Item Price
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- 1954
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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NZ$455.34
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Stain on front board, corners bumped, a good only copy with substantial remnants of the tattered dustwrapper laid in. Ownership Signature of Powell's close friend, Hannah Green. Item Price
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Wicked Pavilion
by Powell, Dawn
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- Used - Vg In Wraps. Lightly Worn. Pages: 281.
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- 1st Thus.
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- 1996
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- Trade Paperback.
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- 9781883642396
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Vancouver, Washington, USA
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South Royalton, VT.: Steerforth Press. Vg In Wraps. Lightly Worn. Pages: 281.. 1996. 1st Thus.. Trade Paperback.. Item Price
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The Wicked Pavilion
by Powell, Dawn
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- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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- First Edition; First Printing
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- 1954
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- Hardcover
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Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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E-384: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1954. 178 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in 1/2 red cloth and paper covered cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards have wear… Read more about this item Item Price
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