Sunday, September 23, 2007

Top Ten Rarest Pulitzer Prize Books

This list might surprise some who would expect To Kill a Mockingbird or Gone With the Wind to appear. In fact, most people never heard of the books listed below. But Pulitzer collectors will immediately recognize them, and they know all too well that these books are extremely difficult to find in first printings with dust jackets. We have listed them here with links to photos of original dust jackets and copyright pages.

1. So Big by Edna Ferber

2. Lamb in his Bosom by Caroline Miller

3. The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson

4. The Store by T.S. Stribling

5. His Family by Ernest Poole

6. Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin

7. Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes

8. Honey in the Horn by H.L. Davis

9. Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

10. Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield

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