ABSALOM, ABSALOM
by Faulkner, William
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York:Random House, 1936. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Good. New York:Random House. 1936. 1st edition. 384pp, with folding map at rear. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in very good clean condition with just of hint of soil to rear board. Internally, pages clean and bright, free of any previous owners marks or signatures. The dust jacket is in good condition, still in one piece but soiled and worn at all edges and folds with small chips and tears at edges/folds.
Synopsis
William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury , Absalom, Absalom! , and As I Lay Dying , among many other remarkable books. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France’s Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23697
- Title
- ABSALOM, ABSALOM
- Author
- Faulkner, William
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York:Random House
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; FICTION; WILLIAM FAULKNER;
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
Massachusetts residents must add 6.25% state sales tax. Methods of payment: Visa, MC, Discover, Check. Postage. USPS Media Mail is $4.00 for first book, $1.00 for each additional book. UPS and USPS Priority will be at cost. Some books, as noted in offerings, will be at cost. Overseas postage will be at cost. All items returnable with prior arrangement up to 10 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
Biblio member since 2016
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.