Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
WARREN, ROBERT PENN. All the King's Men. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth, slight lean, minor rubbing to spine tips and corners; dust jacket, corners clipped with price intact, a few creases at top of front panel, light finger-soiling and rubbing. New York, (1946)

Additional Details

first edition in first issue jacket with the Sinclair Lewis blurb on the back panel. The basis for the film that won the Best Picture Oscar for 1949, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Warren was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979 and remains the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. A handsome copy in an unrestored dust jacket.