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Robert Penn Warren. World Enough and Time: A Romantic Novel. Random House, 1950.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo, red orange cloth with gilt titles, 512pp. Price clipped dust jacket. Special Kentucky Edition, limited to one thousand copies, signed by the author to the colophon in front. Stated first printing. Flyleaf page appears torn out. A large damp stain to boards and front endpapers, pages lightly rippled. Substantial discoloration to reverse of dust jacket and soiling to front flap, however outer panels of dust jacket show no staining, only mild creases to edges and spine. A presentable copy, less defects, looking nice in mylar.
Seller: Heaven Haven Books, Bellevue, KY, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. World Enough and Time. Random House, New York, 1950.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by Warren on the front endpaper. Very Good in a Good jacket, clipped at the top and bottom corners, rubbed with color loss at the top edge, a few small chips. Brown buckram, some scars and scratches, with a black ink panel with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a top stain, rear hinge starting, clean internally. Robert Penn Warren's 19th century Kentucky romance.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Robert Penn Warren. World Enough and Time: A Romantic Novel. Random House, New York, 1950.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (1950) 8vo. 1st edition. INSCRIBED by Robert Penn Warren as 'Red Warren' in red pen on the front free endpaper. Faint scuffing and rubbing to edges of orange cloth. Minor fading to edges of cloth. Light toning to leaves. Some darkening to corners of textblock. Priceclipped DJ. Minor staining and spotting to verso of DJ. Light chipping and edgewear to edges of DJ. VG/G.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn.. WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME.. Random House, New York, 1950.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (1950), 512pp. G+ in G dj. The dj is price-clipped with chipping at the head and tail of the spine, and tape repairs on the inside . The special Kentucky Edition, limited to one thousand copies, signed by the author. Among the author's more popular works. A retelling of the Beauchamp-Sharp tragedy of 1825, one of the most sensational cases in the history of Kentucky crime. A bit of nostalgia - the original sales receipt from 1950 showing a price of $3.50 is laid in.
Seller: Legacy Books, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME, A Romantic Novel. Random House: NY, 1950.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8.5 x 5.5", cloth, 512pp, extremities lightly bumped, covers a little rubbed else a nice, clean copy in an extremity-worn, price-clipped, unevenly toned, rubbed dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, "KENTUCKY EDITION", LIMITED TO 1000 SIGNED COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ROBERT PENN WARREN.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. World Enough and Time. Random House, New York, 1950.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Orange cloth. Slight lean to spine. Extremities faded and stained. Corners bumped. Previous owner's name and date in ink on ffep. Some discoloration to endpapers. Kentucky Edition limited to 1,000 copies, signed by Author.
Seller: Booked Up, Inc., Archer City, TX, U.S.A.
Robert Penn Warren. World Enough and Time. Random House, 1950.
Price: US$130.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is from the collection of Peter Dzwonkoski, former Director of Rare Books & Special Collections at the University of Rochester, and previously of Yale's Beinecke Library. Inscribed to Peter on FFEP. Presentation copy. Wrapped in mylar. #920 of a limited print run. Light soiling to jacket. Tight, square binding. Clean interior.
Seller: Genesee Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
WARREN, Robert Penn. World Enough and Time (Signed First Edition). Random House, New York, 1950.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. First printing. The fourth novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "All The King's Men." An about near fine copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket that has some chipping to the spine ends as well as some tears and edge wear. Signed and nicely inscribed by Warren on the front free endpaper in March 1950. The inscription features Warren's use of his nickname "Red" which he tended to reserve for only friends and family.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Robert Penn Warren. World Enough and Time. Random House, 1950.
Price: US$156.60 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This book is from the collection of Peter Dzwonkoski, former Director of Rare Books & Special Collections at the University of Rochester, and previously of Yale's Beinecke Library. Inscribed to Peter on FFEP. Blue top stain. Orange cloth with gilt title on spine. Clean interior. Tight, sqaure binding. Chipped jacket in protective mylar.
Seller: Genesee Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
WARREN, Robert Penn. World Enough and Time. Random House, New York, 1950.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Random House, (1950). First Edition. Special Kentucky Edition, limited to 1000 copies, signed by Warren. Fine copy in a near fine price-clipped dust wrapper.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Warren, Robert Penn. World Enough and Time. Random House, New York, 1950.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 512 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Jules Gottlieb. His 9th book and a story of the Kentucky frontier. Signed by Warren on the first sheet. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with the spine a touch faded and slight rubbing to the corners. Price clipped. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
WARREN, Robert Penn. World Enough and Time. Random House, New York, 1950.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine in a handsome but good only dust jacket with stains visible on the inside only. Nicely Inscribed by Warren: "To Bud and Mildred with lovely affection. Red. NYC. May 31, 1950." The recipients were Bertrand Harris 'Bud' Bronson and his wife Mildred. Bronson was an English professor at Berkeley from the 1930s until his retirement and a distinguished scholar. Warren likely met him at Oxford in 1929. There are References to Bronson in Warren's *Letters* in Volumes two and three.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.