Warren, Robert Penn World Enough and Time, The Cave, All the King’s Men, Flood, Wilderness, Meet Me in the Green Glen, and four collections of poetry

Collection of eleven books written by Robert Penn Warren .

Ten are inscribed to Peter Dzwonkoski. All on the FFEP From the collection of Brockport, NY poet William Heyen, with a signed note speaking to the provenance.  

Peter Dzwonkoski worked under famed bibliographer and archivist Donald Gallup at Yale’s Beinecke Library, then became Director of Rate Book and Special Collections at the University of Rochester. Over decades, he befriended many writers, oversaw exhibitions, published essays on books and book-collecting, delighted in book-talk.   

Before he passed, he sold much of his collection to friend and fellow collector, poet William Heyen, author of Depth of Field (1970), Noise in the Trees (1974), The Swastika Poems (1977), Long Island Light (1979), Erika: Poems of the Holocaust (1984),  Crazy Horse In Stillness (1996), and Shoah Train (2003).

Robert Penn Warren was a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and poet and  served as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. He was also a professor at Yale University.

Eleven Poems on the Same Theme (1942) This is Warren’s second published work.
The only unsigned title in this collection. Previous owner’s name on bottom rear of dust jacket and on inner flap. Unpaginated. Unadorned stapled wrappers with lightly soiled  printed dust jacket, now wrapped in protective cover.

Selected Poems: New and Old 1923–1966 (1966)
First edition. VG / VG

World Enough and Time (1950) Kentucky is once again the background and integral part of this long novel, the story of Jeremiah Beaumont. The period — early 19th century, finds Kentucky still a frontier, with the inevitable conflicts between frontier viewpoints and those of an encroaching civilization. First edition. NF / VG

The Cave (1959). The story of a young man trapped in a cave in fictional Johntown, Tennessee. His predicament becomes the center of national attention as television cameras, promoters, and newscasters converge on the small town to exploit the rescue attempts and the thousands of spectators gathered at the mouth of the cave. Early printing. Clipped dust jacket. VG / VG

All the King’s Men (1963) Pulitzer Prize winning novel, later adapted to an Academy Award winning film. The dramatic and theatrical political rise and governorship of Willie Stark, based on Louisiana’s Huey Long. 1963 Time Inc. reprint. This edition is scarce with a signature, Inscribed on title page. Tight, square binding. Likely unread. NF.

You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957–1960 (1960) After a decade away from writing poetry this book-length poem explores a shocking true crime: the murder committed by Lilburne Lewis, a relative of Thomas Jefferson. First edition, first printing. Owner’s name on FFEP; otherwise clean interior. Tight, square binding. VG / VG

Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War (1961). Wilderness remains a profoundly provocative meditation on the significance of the Civil War and the varieties of human experience.
First edition. NF/NF

Flood: A Romance of Our Time (1964) Learning of the imminent annihilation of Fiddlersburg, Tennessee, writer Brad Tolliver, accompanied by screen director Yasha Jones, returns to the home town to find in his roots the immutable, creative self he had lost. First edition. VG+/VG+ Closed 1″ inch tear, one small chip and three smaller closed tears barely detract from the vibrant green dust jacket. Green cloth with gold gilt title on spine that is showing some wear to gilt.

Meet Me in the Green Glen (1971) The frustrated wife of an invalid finds herself both attracted to and tormented by a live-in handyman with a criminal past, a former flame, and a wealthy, mysterious visitor. First edition. VG/VG With some bumping, a closed 1″ tear at rear and chipping to jacket at bottom spine edge.

Selected Poems: 1923–1975 (1981)
Franklin Library edition bound in genuine leather and features gilded, sewn in pages and ribbon marker. Signed on fly leaf by Warren. With Heyen’s signature on previous page.