Warren Robert Penn Contributor (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

First edition thus INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY WILLIAM STYRON. [6], 309 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed; splatter staining to spine with shallow overlap into front panel; shallow chipping, tears, and creasing at edges with old tape repairs/reinforcements on verso; toning to rear panel and flaps; front flap retains publisher's printed price at top right; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Black cloth; spine slightly cocked. Black top edge; light toning to fore-edge and bottom edge. Endpapers toned with light stains to pastedowns. Three-line ink inscription "To Carson Holloman | best wishes | William Styron" upon half-title page with his secondary signature "William Styron" on page 269. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a good+ dust jacket. The book's inscribee, Curtis Carson Holloman Jr. (1939-1991), served on the English Department faculty at Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi and many of the signed/inscribed books in his collection were obtained at events held at the University of Mississippi in nearby Oxford.…

Leather Binding. Condition: Fine. First Thus. Copy #1379 of 1500 numbered copies, signed by artist Jacob Lawrence, author John Hersey, and Robert Penn Warren (who contributed a poem). A fine copy in publisher's supple black leather, in a good copy of the black cloth slipcase (book spine has a slight hint of fading; slipcase has wear and fraying as usual). The 8 silkscreen prints by Lawrence are pristine, as issued, with original glassine interleaving. Monthly Letter laid in loose.…