Teeftallow

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.

Price: $30.00

Hardcover. Early printing. Original burgundy cloth with illustrated paper label on front board and spine. Contemporary owner name on front fly, light foxing on endpapers and page edges, spine soiled and cocked with ends and corners worn, thus good only. A novel set in Tennessee when the KKK were tolerated and educated people were looked at with distrust.

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Item #619690 Teeftallow. T. S STRIBLING.

T.S. Stribling
birth name: Thomas Sigismund Stribling
born: 3/4/1881
died: 7/8/1965
nationality: USA

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Tennessee-born novelist best remembered for his single mystery, The Clues of the Carribees, and for his trilogy of novels about a country town, the middle volume of which won the Pulitzer Prize.more

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Thomas Sigismund Stribling is kind of an interesting partially-forgotten author. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Store (1932), the second part of a trilogy that included The Forge and Unfinished Cathedral (1934), and which was apparently based on the doings in his hometown of Clifton, Tennessee. He also wrote a collection of well-regarded detective stories Clues of the Carribees (1929), which appears as both a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone, and a Queen's Quorum title, both seminal lists of collectible detective fiction. Although his other early books are less well-known, it seems that even these command a premium when found in nice jackets.more