Warren, Robert Penn (1905-1989). All The King's Men. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.
8vo. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine (spine light sunned); dust jacket (price-clipped, losses to spine ends and fore-corners, repaired and reinforced on verso, creases). Provenance: Steve Sifferman (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY ROBERT PENN WARREN on the front free endpaper; the inscription begun in one ink, with portions retraced and completed in another. All the King's Men was inspired by the real-life Louisiana politician Huey Long, with its title taken from the children's nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty." It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1947 and was the basis of two Academy Award-winning film adaptations in 1949 and 2006.
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