Guthrie, Woody (1912-1967). Bound for Glory. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1943.

8vo. Photographic frontispiece by Robin Carson, illustrations in the text after Guthrie. Original black cloth gilt; dust jacket (mild rubbing to spine, some chipping along extremities with accompanying creases, minor loss to spine tail). Provenance: Louis Jones (author's inscription).

FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY WOODY GUTHRIE TO LOUIS JONES: "All I hope is that you'll find enough fighting in this book to prove Hitler was wrong when he called us a nation of sissies."

Bound for Glory is a semi-fictionalized autobiography of Guthrie's life, tracing his early years "riding the rails" and his later success as one of America's most significant singer-songwriters. Now considered a classic of "Dust Bowl literature," the book was particularly influential to folk singer Bob Dylan, who would write in his own autobiography, "I went through it cover to cover like a hurricane, totally focused on every word, and the book sang out to me like the radio." It was later adapted into a 1976 motion picture of the same name starring David Carradine as Woody Guthrie.

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Guthrie, Woody (1912-1967). Bound for Glory. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1943.

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Guthrie, Woody (1912-1967). Bound for Glory. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1943.

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