Pulitizer Prize. Fiction

A fine group of 93 first and limited signed first editions of all the Pulitzer Prize winning books, from 1918 when the first award was issued up through 2011, condition generally good in publisher's cloth and dust-jackets (except  Ernest Poole's His Family (1918) and the limited editions are variously bound n cloth with slipcases or full leather). Of the books, there are 8 presentation copies,  27 signed copies plus 10 signed limited editions.  

Condition as described in catalogue description. In the main, minor tears to dust-jackets, corner of front free endpaper in Flavin's Journey in the Dark clipped, name of recipient in Upton Sinclair's Dragon's Teeth erased, head of spine to Edna Ferber's So Big defective.
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Titles, along with the date of the award, include: Booth Tarkington. The Magnificent Ambersons (1919, presentation copy). — Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence (1921). — Thornton Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Ray (1928, signed). — Pearl S. Buck. The Good Earth (1932, presentation copy).  A few losses to top margin of dust-jacket. — Margaret Mitchell. Gone With the Wind (1937). — John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath (1940, signed). —  John Hersey.  A Bell for Adano (1945). Lacks half the dust–jacket backstrip. —  Robert Penn Warren.  All the King's Men (1947). — Herman Wouk.  The Caine Mutiny (1952).— Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea (1953) — James Agee.  A  Death in the Family (1958). — Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird (1961). —William Styron. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1968, presentation copy). — Saul Bellow. Humboldt's Gift (1976, signed). — Norman Mailer. The Executioner's Song  (1980, signed). —  John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1981). — Alice Walker. The Color Purple (1983). — Toni Morrision. Beloved (1988, signed). — Anne Tyler. Breathing Lessons (1988, one signed limited edition and one unsigned first edition). — John Cheever.  Rabbit at Rest (1991, signed). — E. Annie Proulx. The Shipping  News (1994, signed). — Michael Cunningham. The Hours (1999, 2 copies, one signed).  — Geraldine Brooks. March (2006, signed). – Cormac McCarthy. The Road (2007). — Jennifer Egan.  A Visit from the Goon Squad  (2011, signed).

A complete listing is available upon request.