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ABSALOM, ABSALOM!
by Faulkner, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1936. First Trade Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 384 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Fair dust jacket. Gray pictorial spine with beige text. Bound in black with gilt text on spine and front cover and red lines on both covers and spine. 1936 on title page and copyright page and no subsequent printings listed. Head edge dyed red. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has large open tear to head edge of spine and front cover, chipping to corners and tail edge of spine, moderate edgewear and shelfwear, and rear flap detached. Boards have mild edge wear and shelf wear. Text block faint marks on fore and tail edge. Shelved in Case 13. 1370872. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1370872
- Title
- ABSALOM, ABSALOM!
- Author
- Faulkner, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Trade Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- William Faulkner, American Literature,
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About the Seller
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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