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THE FACE OF A NATIONby Wolfe, Thomas1st Edition
NY: The Literary Guild of America, 1939 Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on green panel on spine, gilt borders on spine, green medallion embossed on cover, TEG (green), fore-edge deckle. 8vo. xii, (ii), 322 pp. Illustrated with numerous Art Deco drawings, head and tailpieces by Edward Shenton. Former owner's printed bookplate on fep, spine mildly faded, else fine. NEAR FINE. The writings of Thomas Wolfe are filled with passages of great dithyrambic poetry that can stand with the best that has ever been written. These passages deal for the most part with the American continent and man's new life here. These were Wolfe's great themes. A lyric poet of extraordinary intensity, he poured into these magnificent prose poems the purest essence of his genius. This volume is comprised some seventy passages selected from his writing. Taken together, they constitute, for sheer imaginative force and beauty, one of the most remarkable achievements of our time and give the reader a fresh sense of this writer's unique contribution. One has here the essential Thomas Wolfe, full of the enormous vitality, the brooding beauty and the deep love and joy of life which are characteristic of this writer at his best.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Edward Shenton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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