Franklin Library: LOUIS BROMFIELD: EARLY AUTUMN: OHIO FARM LIFE: PULITZER PRIZE

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Louis Bromfield's "Early Autumn," Illustrated by Jerome Pickney, a Limited edition, one of PULITZER PRIZE series, published in 1977. Bound in camel tan leather, the book has burgundy French moire silk end leaves, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Louis Bromfield, who lived from 1896---1956, was a journalist, expatriate, progressive and accomplished farmer. He studied agriculture at Cornell and journalism at Columbia, drove an ambulance in World War I for the French army, spent many years after the war as an expatriate in France. He lived in India for a short time. In 1939, he returned to Ohio and spent his life experimenting in farming and writing his books. "Early Autumn," published in 1926, was called by The Book man "a dramatic novel and a stinging satire. . .an important book an entertaining one." The novel opens with "a ball in the old Pentland house . . . because a young girl in the family, SYBIL PENTLAND, eighteen years old, is to be introduced to society. . .the house was "all bedizened with lanterns and bunches of late spring flowers, and in the bare, white-painted, dignified hallway a Negro band, hidden discreetly by flowers, sat making noisy, obscene music." 338 pages. I offer Combined shipping.

Price: 19.95 USD

Location: Walnut Ridge, Arkansas

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