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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Meet Me in the Green Glen. Robert Penn Warner. New York: Random House, 1971. Stated First Edition. Of the first edition three hundred copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound. Each copy is signed by the author and numbered. Our Copy is number 285. 376 p, original slip case measures 9 x 6 , 8vo. In good condition. Slip case exhibits ink marginalia on tail of spine ( 285 ); edges of case are normally scuffed with some exposed binding. White linen boards lightly rubbed at edges and corners. Brown cloth spine bumped at head and tail; gilt lettering clean and bright. Top edge stained black; fore-edge deckled. Permanent red ink stamp found on bottom corner of front end-page H . Author s signature (in black ink) & numbering found proceeding front end-page. Text-block clean. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Robert Penn Warren (905 1989) was an American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor at Yale University. He 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 for 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. Yale awarded Warren an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1973. Signed by author. Numbered first edition. RAREA1971QBDB 03/25 - HK2375. Signed by Author(s).