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Wise Blood.
by O'CONNOR, Flannery
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company,, 1952. Her first book, handsomely bound First edition, first printing, of the author's landmark debut novel, the first chapter of which was expanded from her masters thesis. Wise Blood "sets the tone for the religiously displaced types that haunt her fiction" (ANB) and "combines the keen ear for common speech, the caustic religious imagination, and the flair for the absurd that were to characterize O'Connor's subsequent work" (Ency. Brit.) A master of the Southern Gothic short story, O'Connor received the National Book Award for her posthumous Complete Stories (1971). Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in yellow morocco, smooth spine lettered in black, twin black fillet on turn-ins, black endpapers, edges gilt. A fine copy.
Synopsis
Wise Blood was the first novel written by U.S. Southern author Flannery O'Connor.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 109887
- Title
- Wise Blood.
- Author
- O'CONNOR, Flannery
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- New York: Harcourt Brace & Company,
- Date Published
- 1952
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Fine
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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