Blotner, Joseph (Warren, Robert Penn)

Robert Penn Warren: A Biography

ISBN: 0394569571
New York, NY, USA: Random House, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed (twice) & dated to Laurence & Nancy Goldstein by Joseph Blotner. "Robert Penn Warren published ten novels, sixteen volumes of poetry, a book of short stories, two selections of critical essays, a biography, three hundred essays, a critical book on (Theodore) Dreiser, a study of (Herman) Melville, and two studies of race relations in America. In addition, he had an active career as an editor and as a professor of English in America's foremost universities...This remarkable career is fully examined for the first time in Joseph Blotner's authoritative biography, in which Red Warren's life turns out to be far more interesting than most of us knew." (from front flap) The comprehensive, fascinating door-stopper biography of Robert Penn "Red" Warren (1905-1989), the canonical American author, by Joseph Blotner (1923-2012), the acclaimed scholar & academician especially known for his majesterial two-volume biography of William Faulkner (1974). Hardcover in unclipped first-issue dust jacket (with $35 price printed at front flap, "2/97" at rear flap), first edition as stated on copyright page, first printing as indicated by number sequence thereon (beginning with "2" per contemporary custom of this publisher). With a section of captioned historical photographs of Warren, his family & Co. On the blank front endpaper, Blotner has hand-written, signed, placed & dated in balck ink: "For Larry and Nancy,/ with old affection from/ (signed) Joe/ Ann Arbor/ 16 April 1997." "Larry" is Laurence Goldstein (1943-2023), a renowned American author, film critic, poet, editor & academician here in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan; "Nancy" is the gracious Nancy Goldstein, Laurence's widow from whom we have obtained this & many other outstanding items from their collection. Additionally, Blotner has handwritten his full signature at title page below his printed name, also in black ink. An essential & rewarding Warren collectible in its rarest original form, greatly enriched by the esteemed author's two signatures & warm inscription to an equally esteemed colleague dated almost at the time of publication. See also our item No. 6467 (a collectible edition of Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men). Book in very fine condition with only a hint of wear & a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of front, back covers & spine; a few tiny spots at upper edge of text block; otherwise appearing substantially mint inside & out. Dust jacket very fine with only a touch of rubbing, faint scratching to front, back covers, spine & flaps; some tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same. Very Fine / Very Fine. [Item #7098]

Price: $80.00