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A Death in the Family
by Agee James
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0000000027
- ISBN 13
- 9780000000026
- Seller
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Oxford, Mississippi, United States
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About This Item
MDOWELL, OBOLENSKY, NEW YORK, 1957. First edition, first issue. Blue ink title page; "Walking" instead of "Waking" as first word on page 80. Very good condition with very good dust jacket, very small chips at top of spine edges on the dust jacket. Hardcover.
Synopsis
A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by author James Agee, set in Knoxville, Tennessee. He began writing it in 1948, but it was not quite complete when he died in 1955. It was edited and released posthumously in 1957 by editor David McDowell. Agee's widow and children were left with little money after Agee's death and McDowell wanted to help them by publishing the work. Agee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958 for the novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rare Square Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18
- Title
- A Death in the Family
- Author
- Agee James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0000000027
- ISBN 13
- 9780000000026
- Publisher
- Harpercollins Publishers Ltd
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1/22/199
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