One Man in His Time

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922.

Price: $850.00

Hardcover. Early edition (tihs book does not conform to the publisher usual manne rof denoting first edition, but we are sceptical that there was a second printing, however, lacking the first edition statement caution dictates that we refer to it as a reprint). Spine a little sunned, shallow chipping at the spine, very good without dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author. An exceptionally uncommon title, a novel set in Virginia.

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Item #302761 One Man in His Time. Ellen GLASGOW.

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

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Biography

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

Collecting tips:

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