Wheat Springeth Green by Powers: Signed (7 results)

hardcover. Condition: Like New. Near Fine. Condition: Near Fine; Hardcover in dustjacket. This copy is Signed by Powers on the first endpage. Signature only. First Edition. Condition is Near Fine ina Near Fine dustjacket. Book has clean covers, sharp corners and a tight, square binding. Jacket clean and crisp with no rips or tears. Photos upon request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Hardcover in jacket with light edgewear to jacket. 3rd printing. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket. Price-clipped. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. Signed by Powers on ffep. No ownership or other markings. Dust jacket is unclipped and protected in mylar. A nice copy! Ships within 24 hours. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing, Flatsigned by author on ffep, no other marks or writing, not remainder, is price clipped, light wear on boards, some foxing on top edges, dj has some tiny chips and tears, covered in new mylar. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. POWERS, J.F.:Wheat That Springeth Green Knopf 1988 HB Second Printing ISBN 0394496094 FINE/FINE SIGNED, not inscribed, by author on the front free end paper. Very clean, no tears, no bumps, no creases, no soiling. Not price clipped. Powers won the National Book Award in 1963 for "Morte D Urban". Dust jacket now protected in archival mylar. Signed by Author(s).…

dj. First Edition. First edition of his final novel. The story of Joe Hackett who "enters the priesthood in the brash hope of becoming a saint of the contemplative sort . [but instead] . becomes something of an alcoholic, with a suburban parish" (from the jacket flap). INSCRIBED BY POWERS on front endpaper, "Dear Walter Sullivan:/ - I am reading your/ Allen Tate with great/ but still growing ad-/ miration - it could/ only be longer, I think,/ not better, truer./ - Jim Powers." Beneath which Powers has written, "P.S. See corrections on pp. 10 and 322," and then hand-corrected "water" to "bread," p.10:5, and "Cocaigne" to "Cockaigne," p.322:11. (In his inscription, Powers is referring to ALLEN TATE: A RECOLLECTION by Sullivan published that same year by Louisiana State University Press.) REVIEW COPY with publisher's review slip and promotional post card laid in -- along with "J. F. Powers and His Priestly Company," Sullivan's 3-page review of WHEAT THAT SPRINGETH GREEN for the Fall, 1990, issue of Sewanee Review (signed by him on first page). Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and one of the founding members of The Fellowship of Southern Writers. 8vo silver-stamped gray cloth-backed gray paper boards; 335 pages. Fine in near fine dust jacket with spine mildly toned and one small tear to upper edge front panel. Signed.…