Signed book: Of Time and the River. Later printing. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 912 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page, "For Mr. Buttita, Sincerely, with best wishes, Thomas Wolfe, July 15, 1935." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/VG, with a cracked and slightly loose front hinge, soiling and toning to upper textblock, and light sunning to spine; the dust jacket exhibits scattered light creasing and soiling.
The recipient, author Tony Buttitta, is best known for the book After the Good Gay Times: Asheville-Summer of '35 — A Season with F. Scott Fitzgerald, which recounts the author’s experiences and discussions with Fitzgerald at a North Carolina bookshop in the summer of 1935. Buttitta opened the store, The Intimate Bookshop, in Asheville, North Carolina, for the purpose of being headquartered in the hometown of his literary hero: Thomas Wolfe.
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