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Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ, grey cloth boards with purple lettering and decorations; book has a musty smell

Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1947. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Inc., 1948. "First Edition, First Printing". Hardcover. Good +/Good. Light Blue Cloth Covers; White Endpapers; Book is tight but lightly to moderately soiled from age and use; dustjacket is clean and relatively bright but is protected by a mylar wrapper and attached to book on inside fixed endpapers; NO library markings or labels or pockets; 8vo; 323 pages

Knopf, 1948-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Good condition. Missing dust jacket and shelf wear. Clean inside.

NY 1948 first edition (stated) Knopf. Hardcover octavo. 323p. VG in Good dj designed by Salter (dj lightly toned; price not clipped) with light end and edge fraying,no tears, no chips on dj .) "Mr. Gibbons is to be admire...real concern for human beings and human problems" -- Eudora Welty qtd on dj. .

New York: Knopf, 1948. 323p. A near fine copy in a very good dj (drawn by George Salter) which shows minor edge-wear and which is a bit dust soiled. SIGNED (on ffep), FIRST EDITION.. Cloth. 8vo.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. [boards very slightly bowed outwards, tiny shallow dent in top of front cover; jacket has one tiny chip at top of front panel, very slight paper loss at top of spine, light soiling to rear panel]. The Alabama-born author's second (and apparently last) book, "essentially a novel about Johnny Somers, a frightened young man who suddenly finds himself in a strange world of baffling mazes and tortuous paths; and yet, even more starkly real, it is the heart-breaking story of the pitiable, likable people of a small Southern town." If that jacket-blurb quote seems a little oblique, it didn't prevent the New York Times reviewer from sussing out the real subject of the novel: "Sex is the catalyst in this story of a small Southern town, its small Southern inhabitants, and the small young man who comes to teach history to its high school students. It is by way of sex that the contributing… Read More