WOLFE, Thomas (1900-38). Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
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WOLFE, Thomas (1900-38). Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.

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WOLFE, Thomas (1900-38). Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.

8o. Original blue cloth; printed dust jacket, with Wolfe's photo on the rear panel (a few short tears, some repaired on verso, otherwise a fine copy); blue leather folding case.

FIRST EDITION OF WOLFE'S FIRST AND GREATEST BOOK, first state jacket with Wolfe's photo by Doris Ulmann on rear panel. Look Homeward, Angel is the first of Wolfe's four thinly disguised autobiographical novels of life near Asheville, North Carolina. No one denied the greatness of Wolfe's controversial first book, including Sinclair Lewis, who in his Nobel Prize speech the following year named Wolfe among the most promising of the younger generation of writers. Wolfe died prematurely of tuberculosis of the brain at the age of 38. Johnson High Spots A2.1.2.

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