From Death to Morning by Thomas Wolfe - 1979

VERY GOOD+ condition --- Tight binding. Crisp exterior. Clean, unmarked pages. NOTE: Very minor crimp in a few pages at bottom corner of textblock. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. Any questions? Please ask.


This text was featured in the Franklin Library series: "The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers". Included are such stories as 'Only the Dead Know Brooklyn', 'The Four Lost Men' and 'The Web of Earth'. Published as a Limited Edition in 1979, bound in handsome brown leather, and beautifully illustrated by Uldis Klavins, the book is 1st Edition thus.

All Franklin Library genuine full-leather editions feature:

• Full genuine leather binding.
• 22k. gold lettering and stampings on the spine and covers.
• Attached silk page marker.
• High quality paper.
• Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding.
• Gold gilded page edges on all three sides.
• Raised spine bands that give each book that distinctive antique look.

Included with the book is an insert of Notes from the Editors published by The Franklin Library.


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"Thomas Wolfe was the quintessential American writer of his age. He wrote with an intensity, a brilliance, and a clarity that led the New York Herald Tribune , in 1935, to describe him as 'unique, an individual voice crying out in the wilderness of America.' . . .

But perhaps no single work gives the reader a better sense of Wolfe's character as a man or as a writer than 'From Death to Morning'. Individually, its stories reflect his unique narrative style; collectively, they give insight into the themes that compelled him to write throughout his life. Wolfe himself was enormously proud of this collection. He believed that it supported the critics of his day, who compared him to Melville and Twain, Thoreau and Anderson. It was, in addition, one of the works that would lead Faulkner later to say that, among modern American Writers, he 'rated Wolfe first. . . . He tried hardest to say the most.' "


The above text was taken from the introduction of Notes from the Editors for this work.