Forgotten NEW YORKER MAG writer—BOWEN INGRAM—Light as the Morning—1st HC

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A SIGNED First Edition in HARDCOVER of: • “LIGHT AS THE MORNING” (Houghton Mifflin, 1954) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • A Novel of Old Nashville & “the Country Club Set and Their Upcountry Kin.” • BY BOWEN INGRAM • SIGNING NOTE: The author’s signature & inscription: Appear, in blue ink, on the front free endpaper as follows: “To GLADYS H. BARR, Deeply flattered to know such a fine fellow-craftsman will read this. Sincerely, BOWEN INGRAM. October Twentieth, 1954.” • ASSOCIATION COPY: The dedicatee, GLADYS H. BARR, was the author of “THE MASTER OF GENOVA,” “THE PILGRIM PRINCE: A Novel Based on The Life of John Bunyan,” & others. • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “LES McCOIN’s mother belonged to the very nicest people in Nashville. During the war, while his father was overseas, his mother and LES had to move in with her parents. In a world in which the young men were away and the old men worked overtime, the women got together to play bridge and gossip and LES and his friend FOGG, two boys just pushing adolescence, found it fascinating to hide on the stairs and listen to talk which they both did and didn’t understand. They got a thorough indoctrination in who’s who, especially in respect to pretty KITTY LONER and her rich father, both quite unacceptable to the bridge brigade as nouveau riche and ‘upcountry.’ “When LES’s father came home and moved his family into a ranch-type home in a housing development, LES found himself outside this magic world of old Nashville and, try as he might, could never quite get inside it again. It was not until his father took him to a family reunion and he is upcountry kin that he was able to slough off the old standards and accept his heritage as a man and a McCOIN. “In one crammed, exciting day, he learned to appreciate the proud independence of his father’s people and played his part in KITTY’s whirlwind romance. “BOWEN INGRAM is the author of IF PASSION FLIES and is a frequent contributor to THE NEW YORKER. In this novel, she has used the medium of a boy’s conflicting loyalties to tell the romantic story of KITTY LONER and her love for a man who was not only a ‘foreigner’ to Nashville society but an engineer for her father’s pet hate, the TVA. “MRS. INGRAM writes with a light, sure touch about a society with which she is completely familiar. Born in Tennessee, she understands the tensions between the old and the new, caused by the gradual breakup of traditions and the changes brought by TVA.”—THE PUBLISHER • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “LIGHT AS THE MORNING: A NOVEL” SUBTITLE: “The Country Club Set and Their Upcountry Kin” AUTHOR: BOWEN INGRAMCOVER ART: F. G. STROBELTYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston), 1954 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: The date (1954) on the Title & Copyright pages match—with no later editions are listed. NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy NOR a book-club edition. PAGES: 314 ISBN: N/A (PRE-ISBN) CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: GOOD MINUS.Price ($3.50) is unclipped. A two-inch chunk on the top edge of the back is missing; spine tips& corners are heavily chipped. There are also significant chips along the spine on both sides & along the edges. There is a big stain on the front. And all sides have scratches, creases, scuffs, & chipping. For all these flaws, the DJ is intact with mostly bright text & imagery. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.) CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS.Book is square & firm. Boards are lightly but persistently soiled with scuffed/bent corners & spine tips. Spine is tight. Lettering on spine & front remains vivid. Text-block edges are age-toned & scuffed. Inside covers are lightly ghosted. We noticed two age-spots in the margins of pages 283 & 285 but otherwise pages, though moderately age-toned, are all clean & bright—with no writing (other than the author’s inscription & signature), no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. THE AUTHOR’S SIGNATURE & INSCRIPTION: Appear, in blue ink, on the front free endpaper as follows: “To GLADYS H. BARR, Deeply flattered to know such a fine fellow-craftsman will read this. Sincerely, BOWEN INGRAM. October Twentieth, 1954.” ASSOCIATION COPY: The dedicatee, GLADYS H. BARR, was the author of “THE MASTER OF GENOVA,” “THE PILGRIM PRINCE: A Novel Based on The Life of John Bunyan,” & others. • SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.3. OUR DESCRIPTIONS. We describe every item we sell as clearly and accurately as we can. When it comes to describing condition, we tend toward being conservative. 4. PACKING & SHIPPING. 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Price: 36.5 USD

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

End Time: 2025-01-12T17:02:08.000Z

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