The Golden Spur

London: W.H. Allen, 1963.

Price: $250.00

Hardcover. First English edition. A trifle foxed, still easily fine in fine dustwrapper with some foxing on the rear panel. Laid in is the remnant of a wrap-around band with part of an Edmund Wilson review. Midwesterner comes to the big city to uncover his true father and learns his birth is the result of his mother's brief but wild sojourn in Greenwich Village. Powell applies her wit and furious action ensues. A late novel by one of America's best but least known authors, who has recently undergone a rediscovery.

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Item #79204 The Golden Spur. Dawn POWELL.

Dawn Powell
birth name: Dawn Powell
born: 11/28/1896
died: 11/14/1965
nationality: USA

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Biography

Satirical novelist based in Greenwich Village. Although published continuously during her lifetime, Powell never achieved widespread readership and was more fully appreciated several decades after her death, when most of her works were finally brought back into print.more