Everything That Rises Must Converge

New York. Limited Editions Club. 2005. Bound in full crimson cloth over boards. Gilt-titled grain morocco label inset to front cover. Encased in like covered Solander box with gilt-titled grain morocco label inset to spine. Elephant Folio. 17" x 22". This Edition Limited to 300 numbered copies of which this is #24. Signed by Benny Andrews to Colophon. Illustrated with six original colour etchings by Benny Andrews, hand printed on BFK Rives by Peter Pettengill Everything That Rises Must Converge is a collection of short stories written by Flannery O'Connor during her final illness. The title of the collection and of the short story is taken from a passage from the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The collection was published posthumously in 1965.Just one year before her death in 1963, Flannery O’Connor won her second O. Henry Award for ‘‘Everything That Rises Must Converge,’’ a powerful depiction of a troubled mother-son relationship. In 1965 the story was published in her well-regarded short fiction collection, Everything That Rises Must Converge.Most critics view ‘‘Everything That Rises Must Converge’’ as a prime example of O’Connor’s literary and moral genius. The story exemplifies her ability to expose human weakness and explore important moral questions through everyday situations. Considered a classic of the short story form, ‘‘Everything That Rises Must Converge’’ has been anthologized frequently.The story describes the events surrounding a fateful bus trip that an arrogant young man takes with his bigoted mother. The mother insists on her son’s company because she doesn’t like to ride the bus alone, especially since the bus system was recently integrated. The tensions in their relationship come to a head when a black mother and son board the same bus.O’Connor utilizes biting irony to expose the blindness and ignorance of her characters. The story’s title refers to an underlying religious message that is central to her work: she aims to expose the sinful nature of humanity that often goes unrecognized in the modern, secular world. A Very Fine, Pristine,apparently unread copy. Near Fine+ Box presents very mild sunning to top edge of front panel,small bump to fore-edge and two corners and a small, benign patch of darkening to upper rear panel. A Very Rare and important LEC issue.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,, 1965. Octavo. Original light blue boards with dark blue cloth spine, titles to spine in white, grey endpapers, top edge blue, others trimmed. With the dust jacket. A couple of minor bumps to edges of rear board. Otherwise a fine copy in a lightly toned jacket with slightly rubbed extremities. First edition, first printing of this posthumously published collection of nine short stories.

London: Faber & Faber. (1966). First. Uncorrected Proof of the first English edition. Two tiny staple holes on the front wrap else fine in unprinted wrappers. A desirable advance state of this classic collection of short stories, the scarcity of which can be judged by the fact that only 2000 copies of the trade edition were printed. .

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,, 1965. Octavo. Original light blue boards with dark blue cloth spine, titles to spine in white, grey endpapers, top edge blue, others trimmed. With the dust jacket. Edges of boards a touch sunned, small light stain to fore edge, text block slightly strained between front flyleaf and frontispiece. An excellent copy in an excellent jacket with mildly toned and bumped extremities. First edition, first printing of this posthumously published collection of nine short stories.

New York:: Farar, Straus, & Giroux,, 1965. . A Fine tight copy in a Fine, bright, unclipped dust jacket. Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else..

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,, 1965. Octavo. Original dark blue cloth backed light blue boards, titles to spine in white, grey endpapers, blue top-stain. With the dust jacket. Light marks to fore-edge. An excellent copy in the bright jacket. First edition, first printing.

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O'CONNOR, Flannery. EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE [Short Stories by] Flannery O'Connor. (Introduction by Robert Fitzgerald). New York:: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,, 1965. First edition. . Very slight fading to top-edge, tiny erasure mark on front flyleaf (barely noticeable), else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. . [Farmer A5.I.a.1; states 'First printing' on copyright page]. Octavo, dark blue cloth spine, light blue paper-covered boards, pp. xxxiv, 269, illustrated (with a frontispiece portrait of the author). Robert Fitzgerald contributes a 28-page introduction.

Faber 1966. VG bright copy in publishers cloth in like slightly dusty dustjacket with small repaired closed tear. 269pp. 1st English edition, 1st issue of an elusive title. ISBN B0000CMXAY

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New York. 1965. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st Printing. Very Good In Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 105. 269 pages. hardcover. keywords: March 25. inventory # 3578. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The death of Flannery O’Connor at 38 marked the loss of one of America’s most gifted contemporary writers at the height of her powers. This volume is the collection on which she was working at the time of her death. Each of the nine stories carries her highly individual stamp, and could have been written by no one else. ‘Flannery O’Connor’s brilliant talent,’ Elizabeth Hardwick has written, ‘was of that sort that has a contradiction in every pore. She was, indeed, a Catholic writer, and also a Southern writer; but neither of these traditions prepare us for the oddity and beauty of her lonely fiction.’ All but the concluding story in this book are set in the South. The final story, entitled ‘Judgement Day’ and appearing here for the first time anywhere, is about an old man from Corinth, Georgia. Living his last days in New York, he has a horror of death away from home and carries a slip of paper with the message, ‘If found dead, ship express collect’ to Corinth. In the book’s title story, a mother and her son (‘he realized he was too intelligent to be a success’) take a fatal bus ride in their home town; Asbury, the ailing young hero of ‘The Enduring Chill,’ who comes home to die (he thinks), has ‘the last film of illusion torn as if by a whirlwind from his eyes.’ In ‘A View of the Woods,’ a nine-year-old child, made in the image of her seventy-four-year-old grandfather, engages him in mortal combat. Ruby Turpin, the ‘respectable, hardworking, church-going’ heroine of ‘Revelation,’ receives an unwanted glimpse of divine truth in a doctor’s waiting-room. In ‘Greenleaf,’ Mrs. May, another pillar of society who works hard to keep her farm going, proves to be no match for her tenant manager. O. E. Parker, the hero of ‘Parker’s Back,’ who has a Byzantine Christ tattooed on his back, is forced in the end to answer to his full name. The heroes of two of the stories – Thomas, in the relentless ‘The Comforts of Home’ and Sheppard, in ‘The Lame Shall Enter First,’ a terrifying tale of the space-age - have in common good intentions, but in neither case are they realized. EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE is the most worthy memorial that Flannery O’Connor could have left behind to be added to her three previously published books. As Elizabeth Bishop has written, ‘I am sure her few books will live on and on in American literature.’

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NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1965).. (1965).. Good. - Octavo, navy blue cloth backed blue paper covered boards (extremities & head of spine slightly faded; 2 tiny stains to rear board) titled in white on spine, in dw (lightly soiled with staining to dw spine & folds & very light staining to bottom corners of panels & flaps). xxxiv & 269 pages (light staining to lower third of fore-edge & lower corner of first 2 leaves). B&W portrait frontispiece. Good. <p>First edition.<p>A collection of nine stories, including the first appearance of "Judgement Day".

NY : Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1965 F, S & G Stated First Printing of this posthumous collection. In VG/VG condition. The HB is tight with mostly removed underlining. The unclipped DJ has some toning to the white covers and very minor edge wear. .

Faber & Faber, 1965. First British edition. Book is clean and tight with very mild edgewear. DJ has some soiling and light edgewear. Protected in mylar. Review slip included.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo.