Go Down, Moses, and Other Stories
by Faulkner, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good+
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 383. Faint waterspots on the cloth; spine rubbed, and wrinkled at tips; corners bumped. Backcopy (perhaps from a different dust jacket flap) affixed to front paste-down; some light foxing along edges of text block (not infringing into the margins or text itself); discreet ownership signature on FFEP. Dust jacket scuffed, torn, sunned; now in mylar. A good reading copy -- internally clean. Sold as is.
Synopsis
Go Down, Moses is a collection of Faulkner's stories that once strung together, tell the composite history of the McCaslin family, specifically of the white and black descendants of Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin and the residents of the plantation he founded.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sanctuary Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D11886
- Title
- Go Down, Moses, and Other Stories
- Author
- Faulkner, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing Stated
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
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