MANNERHOUSE: A PLAY IN A PROLOGUE AND THREE ACTS
by [War Fiction, Civil War] Wolfe Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1948. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies only. With a frontispiece portrait of Thomas Wolfe and twelve page reproduction of a holograph letter by him about the play. 8vo, publisher's original cloth in the dusjacket and publisher's slipcase. A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket housed in the original slipcase which has some light wear. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES ONLY. A Civil War play written while Wolfe was studying playwriting at Harvard with George Pierce Baker. MANNERHOUSE expresses Wolfe's personal credo "that man does not live for truth but for divine falsehood." It is the story of a great southern mansion built in that faith, the house falls into the hands of speculation and materialism. It is arguabley Wolfe's sole use of non-autobiographical material.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Buddenbrooks, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27956
- Title
- MANNERHOUSE: A PLAY IN A PROLOGUE AND THREE ACTS
- Author
- [War Fiction, Civil War] Wolfe Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
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About the Seller
Buddenbrooks, Inc.
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Newburyport, Massachusetts
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