FIRST EDITION, Thomas Wolfe and His Family, Mabel Wolfe Wheaton & LeGette Blythe

New York: Doubleday, 1961. Stated First Edition. First printing with no other printings stated. The book is Good. Moderately cocked but pages tightly bound. Light bumps to front corners, spine ends pushed and mild soiling to cloth boards. Pages are age-toned. Foxing to endpapers. Black and white photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($4.95) and Good. Chipping to spine head and corners and light soiling (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 336 Pages.

In his novels, Thomas Wolfe immortalized his family and town. But while much of what Wolfe wrote about was factual, a great deal was fiction. Before her death in 1958, Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, his sister, accomplished a lifelong ambition: to reveal the truth about the rest of her family. In intimate, personal glimpses, LeGette Blythe, a writer and friend of the Wolfe family, has culled the extensive notes and recordings of Mrs. Wheaton to reveal the family as they really were.