(New York: Harper and Brothers, 1948).

FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES ONLY. A Civil War play written while Wolfe was studying playwriting at Harvard with George Pierce Baker. MANNERHOUSE expresses Wolfe's personal credo "that man does not live for truth but for divine falsehood." It is the story of a great southern mansion built in that faith, the house falls into the hands of speculation and materialism. It is arguabley Wolfe's sole use of non-autobiographical material. Item #27956

First Edition, Limited to 500 copies only. With a frontispiece portrait of Thomas Wolfe and twelve page reproduction of a holograph letter by him about the play. 8vo, publisher's original cloth in the dusjacket and publisher's slipcase. A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket housed in the original slipcase which has some light wear.