Arouse and Beware

New York: Coward McCann, (1936).

Price: $65.00

Hardcover. First edition. Offsetting to both fly leaves from clippings and faint tape shadows where the jacket flaps were once attached to the pastedowns, else a near fine copy in about fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the rear panel. Basis for the 1940 film featuring Wallace Beery and John Howard as Union spies trying to cross Confederate lines with the help of Dolores Del Rio.

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Item #13477 Arouse and Beware. MacKinlay KANTOR.

MacKinlay Kantor
birth name: Benjamin Mckinlay Kantor
born: 2/4/1904
died: 10/11/1977
nationality: USA

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Biography

American author whose more than 30 novels and numerous popular short stories included the highly acclaimed Andersonville (1955), a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the American Civil War. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

Kantor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Andersonville (1955) came in both a signed limited and a trade edition, with purists seeming to prefer the trade edition, which because of its easily rubbed black dustjacket is seldom found in truly fine condition. Another interesting book of his is Glory for Me (1945), a novel written in blank verse that became the unlikely source for the Academy Award-winning film The Best Years of Our Lives. His earlier books like El Goes South (1930), a hard-boiled novel about the "new" Chicago, are prized for their interesting jacket art.more