Wise Blood
by O'Connor, Flannery
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. First edition of Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, in the publisher's scarce dust jacket.. Octavo, 232pp. Yellow cloth, title in gray on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. In the publisher's dust jacket, $3.00 retail price on front flap, touch of wear to corners. Limited professional restoration to verso with archival tissue paper, reinforcing a few small holes and closed tears. A scarce copy of this author's first novel in its original dust jacket.
Synopsis
Wise Blood was the first novel written by U.S. Southern author Flannery O'Connor.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15249
- Title
- Wise Blood
- Author
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Illustrator
- First edition of Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, in the publisher's scarce dust jacket.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace, and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Wise Blood first edition, The Violent Bear it Anyway first edition, Why Do The Heathen Rage first edition, A Good Man is Hard to Find OConnor, Flannery OConnor The COmplete stories, Flannery OConnor signed book, Flannery OConnor first edition
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Jacket
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- 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....
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...