Glory for Me

New York: Coward-McCann, 1945.

Price: $2,500.00

First edition. Very faint, small dampstain to the edge of the front fly, fine in fine dustwrapper but for some inevitable fading to the red spine lettering. Nicely Inscribed by the author: “To Elizabeth with love. MacKinlay Kantor. April 12, 1946.” An uncommon book employing cheap, leftover wartime paper stock, and especially uncommon in this condition. A lovely copy.

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Item #56351 Glory for Me. MacKinlay KANTOR.
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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