Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954.
by Millhauser, Steven
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Millhauser on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the lightest of wear. Jacket design by Alice and Martin Provensen. Millhauser is best known for his 1972 debut novel, Edwin Mullhouse. The novel is seemingly autobiographical, and it's about a precocious writer whose career ends abruptly with his death at age eleven. Millhauser followed with a second novel, Portrait of a Romantic (1977) and his first collection of short stories In The Penny Arcade (1986). In 1997 he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Martin Dressler and, in 2012, the Story Prize for We Others.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 885
- Title
- Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954.
- Author
- Millhauser, Steven
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Edwin Mullhouse, Pulitzer, signed first edition, Steven Millhauser
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...