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Absalom, Absalom
by William Faulkner
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Bellevue, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
8vo, black cloth with gilt titles and stamped red lines, red topstain, 384pp, foldout map of Yoknapatawpha County to rear. First trade edition, following the signed limited publication of 300 copies. 2.50 price to dust jacket, EH code and date of 1936 to copyright and title pages. Dust jacket is unfortunately tape repaired at spine, with a few tape marks present across spine and at spine edge of rear panel, though this presentation is rather concealed by age darkening and only faintly visible in mylar. AIGA Book Clinic Honor sticker to front panel, as the book was awarded for its iconic George Salter designed dust jacket upon publication in November 1936. The spine of dust jacket is heavily toned, chipping across all edges of panels, creasing to front panel at spine and rubbing and scratch marks to rear panel. Interior is clean, though age toned, cloth showing minimal fading and rubbing. There is an internal horizontal tear to middle of the rear free endpaper. Altogether an attractive copy with sound binding and in an unclipped, still vividly colored dust jacket. Faulkner's masterpiece in the saga of the Compson family. A serviceable copy of the first edition of a hallmark in American Literature, housed in in a custom cloth slipcase.
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
- Heaven-Haven Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B-01
- Title
- Absalom, Absalom
- Author
- William Faulkner
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Date Published
- 1936
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts; Southern Lit;
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About the Seller
Heaven-Haven Books
Biblio member since 2024
Bellevue, Kentucky
About Heaven-Haven Books
Est. 2020. Secondhand, rare & uncommon books, bought & sold. Our specialties include contemporary small press poetry, Southern & Appalachian literature, Kentuckiana, classical and modern philosophy, Catholicism and Christian theology.
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- Gilt
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- Edges
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- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rubbing
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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