In This Our Life

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1941).

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Hardcover. First edition. Bookplate of Robert Tunstall, modest light wear, very good without dustwrapper. Tipped to the rear pastedown is an envelope from Glasgow addressed to Tunstall, within which resides a very nice Autograph Letter Signed expressing her desire that Tunstall live near her in Richmond. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and the basis for John Huston's second film, starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and many others (including those in Huston's cameo joke scene with the cast of his recently completed *The Maltese Falcon*: Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, and others seated at a bar being served by Walter Huston).

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Item #363877 In This Our Life. Ellen GLASGOW.

Ellen Glasgow
birth name: Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
born: 4/22/1873
died: 11/21/1945
nationality: USA

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Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist whose realistic depiction of life in her native Virginia helped direct Southern literature away from sentimentality and nostalgia. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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Ellen Glasgow enjoyed popularity through the 1920s and then like others of that generation, including her Richmond neighbor and close friend James Branch Cabell, fell out of favor. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel In This Our Life (1941), published late in her life was something of a valedictory award for good behavior. It is not stunningly uncommon, but is difficult in fine condition - the gold on the jacket rubs easily. There has been some interest in Glasgow, as both a woman writer, and a Southern writer, and one would do well to keep an eye out for her pre-1920 books in jacket, as well as her collection of ghost stories, The Shadowy Third and Other Stories (1923). Her popularity reached its apex in the 1920s, and the novels of that period, with printings that were commensurate with that popularity, can usually be found for modest sums.more