HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN: A Play in Three Acts by Hughes, Hatcher - 1924

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/very good. 1st edition of the author's first book. Dust jacket chipped at extremities, book in fine condition. Pulizter Prize winner for 1923.

Harper & Brothers, 1924. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Rufe Pryor - Frontis. Hardcover/ no DJ; VG+ to Near Fine condition. Stated First Edition, c. 1924, same year on title page & no note of further printings. 187 pages, bright red publisher's topstain to top edge w/ rough-cut side & bottom edges to text block. Brown board binding tight, clean & square w/ little to no wear. NO bumps, fray, rubs or sun discolor. Pastedown title labels on cover & spine are bright, crisp & unmarred. Owner name penned inside front cover, 3 light nos. inside back cover. Text is tight, clean & unmarked w/ just a trace of toning. NO hinge splits, NOT ex library. Handsome, well preserved copy. ***Reliable, fast. (133)

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Owner name ("William Thornton") on front pastedown else fine in moderately toned very good or better dustwrapper (with the Pulitzer Prize sticker affixed on the front panel) and very shallow loss at the crown. Scarce Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set amongst the mountain people of the Carolinas. Seldom found in jacket. Hughes's first solely authored play.

New York: Harper Brothers, 1924. state first edition,brown with paper labels,minor scatches very minor bumping spine ends,orange stained top edge,rough page edges,no names no marks,very very tight and square. included is a hand written letter from Hatcher Hughes on Men's Faculty Club,Columbia University,New York City stationary,11 lines and handsigned Hatcher Hughes.. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a shallow chip at the crown, and some soiling on the rear panel. The jacket is the earliest state without the Pulitzer Prize sticker affixed to the front panel. Basis for the 1926 J. Stuart Blackton-directed film *Hell-Bent for Heaven* featuring Patsy Ruth Miller and John Harron. Very scarce Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set amongst the mountain people of the Carolinas. Seldom found in jacket, and rarely without the sticker announcing the Pulitzer Prize. Hughes's first solely authored play.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in an about fine dustwrapper with some very modest soiling. The jacket is the earliest state without the Pulitzer Prize sticker affixed to the front panel. Basis for the 1926 J. Stuart Blackton-directed film *Hell-Bent for Heaven* featuring Patsy Ruth Miller and John Harron. Very scarce Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set amongst the mountain people of the Carolinas. Seldom found in jacket, and rarely without the sticker announcing the Pulitzer Prize. Hughes's first solely authored play.