A Rage to Live
by O'HARA, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1949. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with red and gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 590pp. Very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with tiny chips mainly at spine head/tail; "Royal Book Service" inkstamped on front pastedown. Attractive and tight first edition of this American societal epic set in fictional Fort Penn, Pennsylvania -- and this copy bearing three choice autograph additions. In 1965 a film version of this drama was released, and this copy bears three fine, matching heavy stock 5" X 2½" cards each signed boldly by a film cast member tipped one above the other to the front flyleaf. Top to bottom: SUZANNE PLESHETTE (1937-2008, plays lead Grace Caldwell Tate) signs large in black fineline, dating it 31 January 1982 at upper right; CARMEN MATHEWS (1911-95, plays Grace's mother Emily Caldwell) signs in black fineline, dating it 10 May 1993 at upper right; and BRADFORD DILLMAN (1930-2018, plays Grace's husband Sidney Tate) signs in black fineline, dating it 8 February 1985 at upper right. Quite an unusual copy -- and with all three original signature transmittal envelopes laid in.
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Modern Library
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47783
- Title
- A Rage to Live
- Author
- O'HARA, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; American Literature;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
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- Jacket
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