National Book Award for The Lion and the Throne

New York: Medallic Art Co., 1957.

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Unbound. Wooden plaque with medallion. Measuring 9" x 7". Some modest rubbing to the finish on the wood, near fine. The wooden plaque has beveled edges, and a medallion of a man reading a book with the legend "National Book Award." Below that is a name plaque that reads "Nonfiction / Catherine Drinker Bowen / 1957." Bowen won the award for the book *The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634)*, a biography of the prominent lawyer of Elizabethan England, in the process beating out Henry Kissinger (*Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy*) and Mary McCarthy (*Memories of a Catholic Girlhood*), among others. We've never seen another National Book Award offered for sale. Provenance available on request.

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Item #284534 National Book Award for The Lion and the Throne. Catherine Drinker BOWEN.
National Book Award for The Lion and the Throne

Catherine Drinker Bowen
birth name: Catherine Drinker Bowen
born: 1/1/1897
died: 11/1/1973

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American historical biographer known for her partly fictionalized biographies. After attending the Peabody Institute and the Julliard School of Music, she became interested in writing. Not surprisingly, her earliest works were inspired by the lives of musicians. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore