The Store
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1932.
First edition, first printing and a fantastic copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Signed by T. S. Stribling and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. 571 pp. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with paper labels on spine and front cover. Near Fine or better with thin sunnign to top and bottom edges of cloth near spine, light biopredation to spine label though both labels remain very sharp and bright, faint foxing to textblock edge. Tape ghosts to front and rear free endpaper affecting author's inscription. In a Near Fine original dust jacket with correct price of $2.50 intact, light wear, light offsetting to the blindside from paper labels. A very nice copy, uncommon in such superlative condition. Laid in is a two-page TLS by Stribling, dated Dec 14 56. With one horizontal and two vertical folds. A remarkably philosophical letter. "It is amazing how the contemplation of imaginary life in novel writing with develop theories and it may be thuths [sic] which you never knew before. I hope you see that I could easily go off into a mystical strain here and suggest that all of us are minor demiurges and create our own worlds. I might even go on and say that those worlds we creats [sic] are as real as any other since they are composed of energy as are all the rest. But why should I blur a Christmas letter with a suggestion of the factuality of mental and spiritual things?"
Price: $15,000.00