Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe

WOLFE, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. London, William Heinemann, 1930.

First UK edition of Wolfe’s bestselling first novel.

Look Homeward, Angel is a veiled autobiography and coming-of-age in America story, written in a sprawling almost stream-of-consciousness style. Having enjoyed wide and enduring popularity, the novel was adapted as a play in 1957 and readapted as the Broadway musical Angel in 1978.

Octavo, pp. 613; near fine, in blue-coloured publisher’s cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, printed dust jacket (spine slightly faded).