Grubb davis 1919 (6 risultati)

Condizione: FINE. First printing. Ninth novel by this West Virginia author, best known for 'The Night of the Hunter.' Like most of his novels, this is set in the 1930s during the Depression in the mining country of West Virginia. Farjeon, driven from his farm, wanders into the town of Glory, only to have his young pregnant wife killed in a clash between the striking miners and the strikebreakers. 350 pp. Very near fine in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a near fine dustjacket (small chip to upper edge of back cover of dj).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 259 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. This collection of short stories brings to life the author's inimitable characters--quirky farmers, hardent miners, free-ranging children--and a West Virginia town of the thirties and forties. The tales contain a sly and earthy humor along with a spectrum of human emotion. Condition: Corners gently bumped else a near fine copy in a fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 216 p. illus. 21 cm. ; LCCN 68028116 ; OCLC 448802 ; black cloth, in pictorial dustjacket ; ex-library, stamps, tape ; Davis Alexander Grubb was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for his 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter, which was adapted as a film in 1955 by Charles Laughton. ; G/G, scarce title. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 306 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with red lettering to spine over green boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Davis Grubb's (The Night of the Hunter) eighth novel is set in the mining country of West Virginia in the spring of 1935. Mattie Appleyard, Johnny Jesus, and Lee Cottrill have just been released from the prison in Glory, West Virginia, and are being escorted out of town by Uncle Doc Council, state prison guard. Mattie has a check for $25,000 representing his savings and interest during forty-seven years imprisonment. And the three ex-cons intend to begin a legitimate enterprise together if they live to cash the check which happens to be payable only to Mattie at the bank in Glory. Uncle Doc who is half evangelist, half criminal, savors the task of preventing their return alive. Grubb's novel thereafter is the story of a chase, and its subtle beginnings with an undertone of ominous unpredictableness decelerates into madcap happenstance in which the ""characters"" become mere pawns of coincidence. These three, who are authentic outcasts, should become Glory's heroes, that evil should be routed and that even a boy and his dog are reunited. Condition: Spine heal lightly rubbed. Jacket corners and spine extremities rubbed, some edge chips and small creases else better than very good in like jacket. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 317 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with white and shadow black to cover and spine in original pictorial jacket. Inscribed by the author. First Edition. Davis Grubb was an American novelist and short story writer. Born in Moundsville, West Virginia, Grubb wanted to combine his creative skills as a painter with writing and as such attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. However, his color blindness was a handicap he could not overcome and as such gave up on painting to dedicate himself to writing fiction. He did however do a number of drawings and sketches during the course of his career, some of which were incorporated into his writings. In 1940, Grubb moved to New York City where he worked at NBC radio as a writer while using his free time to write short stories. In the mid 1940s he was successful in selling several short stories to major magazines and in the early 1950s he starting writing a full length novel. Influenced by accounts of economic hardship by depression-era Americans that his mother had seen first hand as a social worker, Grubb produced a dark tale that mixed the plight of poor children and adults with that of the evil inflicted by others. His first novel, The Night of the Hunter, became an instant bestseller and was voted a finalist for the 1955 National Book Award. That same year, the book was made into a motion picture that is now regarded as a classic. Deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Davis Grubb went on to write a further nine novels and several collections of short stories. His 1969 novel Fools' Parade would also be made into a motion picture starring James Stewart. Some of Grubb's short stories were adapted for television by Alfred Hitchcock and by Rod Serling for his Night Gallery series. Grubb died in New York City in 1980. His novel Ancient Lights was published posthumously in 1982, and St. Martins Press published eighteen of his short stories in a book collection titled You Never Believe Me and Other Stories. A young boy is brutally murdered in the Southern town of Elizabethville while five people watch. In Shadow of My Brother Davis Grubb goes back through three generations of the Wilson family to build a narrative of terror-not only of this murder but of the special yet familiar evil that spawned a murderer. In times after that night there were those among them who swore that a single bolt of lightning had slashed through the sky; lighting the faces of the just and the unjust, of sleepers and the watchers of the night, and the slain and the slayers. This is a poignant, unrelenting, almost insufferable description of the pathology of racism and sex, what it portrays about his dimension of the American inheritance is pathetically true and immediately timely. Condition: Inscribed on front end paper. Touch of sunning to edges. Jacket lightly soiled, front fold over flap creased, some rubbing to spine ends else a better than very good copy in like jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 275 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine over black boards with gilt lettering to cover in original pictorial jacket. Inscribed by the author. First edition. This is an extraordinary novel-tender, grotesquely comic and frightening. Under the shadow of the state prison lies an old West Virginia river town called Adena, its peace and security sedulously watched over by Sheriff Luther Alt. Hearing his boots ring slowly down the ancient brick sidewalks, folks could feel quite safe in their beds at night. The unexpected did not happen in Adena, until the death of you Cole Blake. The son of one of the town's leading families, he is found murdered. To discover why a young man in love has been shot to death, Davis Grubb enters a dark tangle of events and human emotions. Writing with brooding power, he composes an unforgettable gallery of Adena men and women. Each of them stands distinct, and they are the sheriff's two daughters, Jill and Cris, as different from each other as the light from the dark. And the Sheriff himself, the Watchman, a man of stoic nobility. The Watchman is a poetic melodrama. Condition: Inscribed on front endpaper "For Peter Johnson - with profoundest admiration for his dedication to a noble calling and with thanks for his friendship. Always, Davis Grubb 1961" with Grubb's drawn design. Corners gently bumped. Jacket edge wear with some small chips, some loss to spine head, corners lightly chipped else a very good copy in like jacket. Inscribed by Author(s). …