Warren, JOHN BROWN - 1929 1st/1st, lmtd to and 44 similar items

Warren, Robert Penn, JOHN BROWN THE MAKING OF A MARTYR, New York: Payson Clarke Ltd., 1929. 1st ed., limited to 500, author?s first book, burgundy hardcover w/light brown ink titling to spine, 8vo (9x6?), very good+/good, 474pp. Warren?s first book, it was limited to 500 copies, a rare book in the even rarer dust jacket albeit the dust jacked is well chipped especially at the head and tail edge with some soiling. The book itself is in very good, to almost fine condition with light rubbing to head and tail of spine, light staining to front and bottom fore-edge of text block, text block itself is remarkably clean with no age-toning or foxing noted. Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 ? September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the novel All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. Quite the distinctive Capture of Tyme!