Nov 29, 2007 - Sale 2130

Sale 2130 - Lot 288

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
INSCRIBED WARREN, ROBERT PENN. All the King's Men. 8vo, original gilt-lettered maroon cloth, upper outer tips bumped, affects contents by a gentle creasing to most of text block, more pronounced toward rear; first issue dust jacket, loss at spine ends and folds, clean 2-inch tear along bottom right spine, moderate soiling and surface wear. New York, (1946)

Additional Details

first edition. inscribed and signed by warren with his nickname "Red" to his friend Fred Crofts, in the year of publication. Crofts was a publisher who first met Warren when he successfully handled the production and promotion of the Warren''s early textbook "Understanding Poetry" in the early 1940s. Ex-library Crofts, but without any identifying marks.