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WOLFE, THOMAS. Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life. New York: Scribner's 1929. 8vo, original blue cloth, dust jacket (a few small tears, some slight fraying at upper edge), green half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, First State of dust jacket, of the author's first regularly published book, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "For Hilda Gottlieb Thomas Wolfe May 28, 1931" (the recipient was a secretary at Scribner's). Johnston A2.1.a A very good copy, the jacket bright.
Provenance: Hilda Gottlieb (sale, Christie's New York, 26 November 1979, lot 487).
Provenance: Hilda Gottlieb (sale, Christie's New York, 26 November 1979, lot 487).