Wise Blood

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First edition of O'Connor's powerful first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to her editor, "For Robie --- Flannery." Robie Macauley was an American editor, novelist and critic whose literary career spanned more than 50 years. In 1966, Macauley became the Fiction Editor at Playboy where he published fiction by Saul Bellow, Roald Dahl, Nadine Gordimer, John Irving, Doris Lessing, Vladimir Nabokov, and Kurt Vonnegut among many others. In 1978 he became a Senior Editor at Houghton Mifflin where he was responsible for publishing The Mosquito Coast, The Marrakesh One-Two, Shoeless Joe, and several works of nonfiction. Near fine in a good first issue dust jacket with some wear to the front panel and crown of the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional association. Assembled from disparate stories first published in Mademoiselle, Sewanee Review and Partisan Review, Flannery O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood, has come to be appreciated as a work of "low comedy and high seriousness". Themes of redemption, racism, sexism, and isolation are prevalent throughout the novel which O'Connor stated was about "freedom, free will, life and death, and the inevitability of belief."

Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1952 First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Flannery O'Connor on a laid in signature. This original First Issue dustjacket has the publisher's printed price present on the front flap with minor wear to the edges. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's yellow cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with slight wear. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with the words "FIRST EDITION" printed on the copyright page. We buy SIGNED Flannery O'Connor First Editions.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952 A near fine first edition (so stated on copyright page) inscribed by O'Connor on the front free endpaper. Very good dust jacket is price-clipped. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1952 First Edition, First Printing INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Flannery O'Connor on the front endpaper. A wonderful copy. An attractive dustjacket with light wear to the spine and edges. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy authentically SIGNED by the author. Includes the original return postage label from Flannery O'Connor to the person that the book was signed to for provenance.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company,, 1952. Octavo. Original yellow boards, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled and rubbed with a couple of small splits to spine ends, circulation card envelope laid down to front pastedown, inscribed note tipped-in to front free endpaper, tape residue to front free endpaper, flaps from a later edition of the book taped to rear endpaper. Overall a very good copy, internally clean, in the repaired and restored jacket. First edition, first printing, presentation copy. This copy was presented by the author to the Shoenberg Library of the National Jewish Hospital in Colorado, with a presentation note pasted to the front free endpaper, "This book presented to the patients of The National Jewish Hospital with the compliments of the author", and the library's stamp to the first blank. Previously tipped in, and now loosely inserted, is accompanying typed signed letter from O'Connor to Phillip Houtz, director of the hospital, dated 28 June 1952, informing him that the book would arrive shortly from her publishers. This is the author's landmark first book, the first chapter of which was expanded from her masters thesis. This copy has the scarce first issue jacket, with the $3.00 price and the correct setting of the front flap.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952 First Edition, First Printing with the words "FIRST EDITION" printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy in collector's condition. We buy Flannery O'Connor First Editions.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

First Edition, Advanced Review Copy in Dust Jacket of the Author's First Book O'CONNOR, Flannery. Wise Blood. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. Stated first edition, advanced review copy with the review copy slip tipped in at the front endpapers. The slip is stamped "May 19, 1952 $3.00." Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 203 x 135 mm). [1]-232 pp. Publisher's full yellow cloth, spine stamped in brown. In publisher's dust jacket. Jacket with the tiniest ding at the top of front panel, but there is no loss. Fore-edge of text block with a small ding, barely affecting the edge of the first 20 or so pages. Overall a fine copy in an about fine dust jacket. One other story in [O'Connor's] masterís thesis was revised to become the first chapter of her first novel, Wise Blood, published in 1952. This novel was some five years on the drawing board before OíConnor was willing to release it to Harcourt, Brace. She was committed to draft after draft of her stories and novels, often following circuitous routes on the way to final versions. The hero of Wise Blood, Hazel Motes, whom OíConnor was to call ìa Christian malgrÈ luiî in her authorís note to the 1962 second edition of the novel, sets the tone for the religiously displaced types that haunt her fiction. These unlikely creatures preach strange gospels, engage in rituals of drowning-baptism and ìprayer healingî (burying morbid newspaper stories), have visions near ìhog pensî and before figures of ìartificial Negroes,î and have heads of Byzantine Christs tattooed on their backs. Despite OíConnorís Roman Catholic upbringing and her ongoing commitment to its teachings, her characters tend mainly to be fundamentalist Protestants. These were the religious types she observed most frequently during her years in and around Milledgeville." (American National Biography) HBS 68187. $4,500

New York: Signet Books.. Fine with no dust jacket. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First paperback edition. SIGNED by Flannery O'Connor on title page. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. From the library of Kurt Enoch publisher of Signet books and New American Library, who amassed a personal collection of signed or inscribed copies of works by authors he published. An outstanding association on this, the author's FIRST book. ; 4 1/2" X 7" .

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952. First Edition of the author’s first book. A fine copy in a dust jacket with some tiny chips and light wear and tear.

Clean, tight book with slight discoloration at foot of spine. Dustjacket has been professionally restored including infill at top and bottom of front panel and spine. More than presentable copy of an increasingly scarce book. Harcourt New York 1952 1st Edition Hardback Cloth 8vo. 232pp. Author's first book. Stated first printing.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Small ding to top of back board, a bit of light foxing and light dust-soiling to edges. Jacket has light foxing and rubbing, is chipped a bit at head and tail with a few small creases and nicks, but is unclipped ($3.00) and has an unfaded spine panel. A very nice copy of the Southern author's first book.

New York: Harcourt Brace. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Yellow cloth, dark titling. Spine ends/corners slightly rubbed/frayed. Board edges minimally rubbed. Text block edges slightly toned. Sound binding, unmarked. Original DJ in mylar with $3.00 price has been professionally restored and presents as fine with a trace of foxing or toning. Stated first edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1952. First. hardcover. fine/very good(+). 8vo, yellow cloth, d.w. New York: Harcourt Brace, (1952). First Edition. Her first book. A fine copy. The white dust wrapper with the $3.00 price, is slightly toned, with a faint dampstain along the front edge.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavo. 232 pp. First edition stated of the author's first book. Very good condition in yellow boards. Small prior owner name to the inside front pastedown else a clean well bound copy. Light wear to spine tips and with offsetting to rear board.. The price intact dustwrapper is quite bright with vivid red lettering on the spine. The jacket suffers from a 2/3" wide irregular shaped chip at the top edge of the front panel. A good preservationist could improve this matter greatly. Debut novel by one of the most respected of all 20th century Southern writers. A Burgess 99 title (or, as I like to call it, one of the "nifty fifty"). See photos for details.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company,, 1952. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in yellow morocco, titles blocked to spine in black, twin rule to turn-ins in black, black endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. First edition, first printing.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company,, 1952. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in black. With the dust jacket. Spine ends a little worn, light rubbing to tips, faint marginal smudges. A very good copy in the slightly rubbed jacket, spine ends a bit chipped, a few marks to panels, 55 mm closed tear to foot of front flap fold, a couple of nicks and short closed tears. First edition, first printing, of the author's first book.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First edition of O'Connor's powerful first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Assembled from disparate stories first published in Mademoiselle, Sewanee Review and Partisan Review, Flannery O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood, has come to be appreciated as a work of "low comedy and high seriousness". Themes of redemption, racism, sexism, and isolation are prevalent throughout the novel which O'Connor stated was about "freedom, free will, life and death, and the inevitability of belief."

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in an otherwise Very Good jacket with a sizable chip on the front panel, price-clipped, some surface rubbing throughout and a few spots of foxing. Yellow buckram with brown ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name inside the front board. O'Connor's debut novel that started as her Master's thesis at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. A classic of the Southern Gothic genre and later adapted into a classic film directed by John Huston.

A near fine first edition (First Edition stated on the copyright page) in a very good dust jacket with the $3.00 original price still on the front flap, some foxing on jacket.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1952 First edition, first printing. Publisher's yellow cloth, spine lettered in dark gray; in the original pictorial dust jacket, with red and gray circles emanating waves behind the white title lettering, spine lettered in red and black. Book near fine, with some light wear and faint spotting to the extremities, former owner's inscription to the front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean interior; unclipped dust jacket, with some wear and a few minor chips to the extremities, faint toning to the spine, short closed tear to the front panel at the spine head, some soiling to the otherwise fresh panels. Overall, a very good and pleasing copy. Wise Blood is a Southern Gothic novel that tells the story of Hazel Motes, a recently discharged World War II veteran returning from combat to his childhood home in Tennessee. After finding his family gone and their home destroyed, Motes founds the Church Without Christ, an anti-religion which preaches a reliance on self rather than God. O'Connor, herself a native of Georgia and raised Roman Catholic, explores questions of morality and ethics in the 20th century; indeed, Motes' nickname "Haze" reflects his spiritual confusion in the modern age. Interestingly, O'Connor assembled Wise Blood from several previously published short stories.. 1st Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 232 p. Yellow cloth with grey lettering. Near Fine condition. No jacket. Rubbing to cloth along spine and top and bottom edges. A nice copy.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover - lacks dust jacket. VG- small chip to the head of the spine, light soiling to the baords. 1950s small bookshop sticker on the pastedown. Stated First Edition. 232pp. Yellow cloth. Only the author photo and the folding panels remain of the dust jacket. Binding tight. .

London: Neville Spearman, (1955). First UK edition of the author's first book. One of the best and strongest southern writers, in our opinion. Endpapers a trifle dark and about an inch of an offset line on half title page, otherwise fine in an unchipped dust jacket showing a little age and a few tiny soiled spots but very bright and nice with the barest wear on corners and spine ends.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. First edition, octavo size, 232 pp. Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964), Southern novelist and essayist, wrote only two novels; this, "Wise Blood", was the first. The first chapter is from her master's thesis at the University of Iowa, and she spent five years working with the rest of the text before she was satisfied that it was ready to release to the publisher; she was committed to the process of revision, and her novels went through many drafts before completion. "The hero of 'Wise Blood', Hazel Motes, whom O'Connor was to call 'a Christian malgré lui' in her author's note to the 1962 second edition, sets the tone for the religiously displaced types that haunt her fiction. These unlikely creatures preach strange gospels, engage in rituals of drowning-baptism and 'prayer healing' (burying morbid newspaper stories), have visions near 'hog pens' and before figures of 'artificial Negroes,' and have heads of Byzantine Christs tattooed on their backs. Despite O'Connor's Roman Catholic upbringing and her ongoing commitment to its teachings, her characters tend mainly to be fundamentalist Protestants. These were the religious types she observed most frequently during her years in and around Milledgeville." (N.B., per ANB.) Ms. O'Connor was the recipient of the 1972 National Book Award for her "Complete Stories", which in an online poll taken in 2009 was named the best book ever to have won the National Book Awards. ___DESCRIPTION: Original yellow cloth with lettering blocked to backstrip in black, in original dust jacket (correctly labeled with $3.00 to the head of the front flap), octavo size (8.25" by 5.75"), [1-8] 9-232 pp., first edition (so stated), of an edition of 3000 copies. ___CONDITION: A good copy only; it has a strong square text block with solid hinges, and is internally clean with no prior owner markings; the corners are straight (albeit somewhat rubbed), we are grading as good only due to a damp stain that worked through the book at the backstrip, causing some chipping to the head and tail of the spine; otherwise a very good copy. The dust jacket is fair to almost good, it is all in one piece with the flaps still quite bright and is not price-clipped, with the authors portrait unscathed; it does suffer from some medium to large chips at all sides, and has evidence of the same stain afflicting the book. Though still a good jacket and intact, we have priced reflecting the condition, which is overall very good. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Stated first edition. The dust jacket has several chips on both top and bottom. A previous owner performed a tear repair on the inside rear of the DJ with a piece of tape. The Jacket is intact. it is nicest copy we've seen in this price range. VG/G-

London: Neville Spearman, 1955. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Endpapers slightly tanned as usual else fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a little foxing on the rear panel. An unusually nice copy of the author's first book, this English edition usually found quite worn. *Burgess 99*.

O'CONNOR, Flannery. WISE BLOOD [A Novel]. London:: Neville Spearman,, 1952. First English edition; author's first book [first published in New York, by Harcourt, Brace and Company, in 1952 (see Farmer A1)]. . Top edge and fore-edge lightly foxed, half-title page and final leaf of text are browned along inner hinge, else a near fine, bright copy in very good dust jacket; pictorial jacket (designed by Guy Nichols) is lightly tanned on spine, few tiny tears on front panel, rear panel and blank verso are moderately foxed (pictorial front panel is quite bright). . Small octavo, orange cloth, 232 pages.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated first edition. A very good copy in yellow boards titled in black. The author's acclaimed first book. Some age spotting to inside front pastedown and front endpaper else a clean unmarked copy. External covers are lightly hand soiled. A solid very good example of this literary debut. Lacking the rare dustwrapper.

London: Neville Spearman, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 232 pages. The author's first book, a classic of Southern fiction. First British edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The jacket spine is somewhat dulled and there is light wear at the edges, but generally a very nice copy.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition stated, first printing. Publisher's yellow cloth stamped in grey, About Very Good, with cloth a bit grubby, foxed, toned and lightly edge worn. Creases to front free end paper and following blank. Lacking the dust jacket. A nice copy of O'Connor's first novel.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 232 pages. The author's acclaimed first book, a classic Southern novel. First edition (first printing). Previous owner's name on the flyleaf; old dampstain along the top two inches of the spine; extensive chipping along the top edge, affecting two letters in the author's name on the front panel. A passable copy at a reasonable price.

Harcourt, Brace, 1952-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. 1st printing, stated First Edition, 1952 Harcourt, Brace. Flannery O'Connor's first novel. Good+ copy. Binding is tight, sturdy and square. Top of pages slightly stained, rear board shows minor blemishing along with some wear along the top edge. The previous owner signed her name in pencil on the first page; it has been erased but is still faintly visible. No dust jacket, otherwise this is a very good copy of this scarce collector's item! Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

London, United Kingdom: Neville Spearman, 1955. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition. First Print. First UK edition with very light chipping to the spine and corners of the jacket which is priced at (11s. 6d. net) as called for, the jacket is bright with the colour's still vivid, light fade to spine, original orange boards are bright and sharp. Slightest offsetting to the front end page. Text and pages clean tight and unmarked with no tears, creasing or foxing. .

Harcourt, Brace. Collectible - Acceptable. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First edition. 8vo hardcover in yellow cloth with black text to spine. 232pp. Near very good, no dust jacket. Boards very faintly soiled, and small dampstain to bottom fore corner of front board. Several small spots to page edges. Interior bright and clean; toning extremely minimal, better than typical for the age. Quite a nice copy of O'Connor's first work. Inquire if you need further information.

Harcourt, Brace. 1952. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Hard cover published by Harcourt, Brace and Co. in 1952. No DJ. Corners of covers are bumped and worn, and front cover is bent and creased at upper corner. Back cover is bent with multiple creasings at upper corner. Ends of spine are worn some. Previous owner's name is written at top of front endpaper. Upper corners of pages are bent towards rear. Not an ex-library book.; 232 pages .

Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. Hardcover. B0007EO5UA Dust jacket wrapped in a clear archival protector- jacket has minor rubbing to the edges- jacket spine color has began to fade- jacket price not clipped, clean, has a good binding, name written inside at the top corner of the front end page- no other marks or notations. Tenth Printing. Ships from our bookstore in West Columbia, S.C.! . Good.

1996-03-18. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. Book. Near Fine. Cloth (hardcover). Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The second edition of the author's first novel (1952) with a new "Author's Note to the Second Edition." A really clean and bright copy in black cloth with red edge-stain to top. Upper and lower edges of covers seem just slightly dulled or dusted. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in similar price-clipped dust jacket showing some very light edgewear, and a bit of soiling to rear panel (now in archival mylar sleeve). Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. ii,232+6[blank]p..

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New York: Signet Books # 1029, 1953. Head and heel of spine chipped. Light vertical creases along outer edge of front cover panel. Rear panel lightly rubbed.. First Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

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1990-07-09. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!

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O'CONNOR, Flannery. WISE BLOOD. New York:: Farrar, Straux and Giroux,, 1969. Second edition, second printing [see Farmer A1. I.a.2 note]; contains "Author's Note to the Second Edition" (which is also present in the first printing of the second edition). . Former owner's (pictorial) bookplate on front pastedown, else a near fine copy in very good (price-clipped) dust jacket. The pictorial dust jacket (jacket design by Milton Glaser) is faded on spine (as usual, with tanning on unprinted verso), light wear, a few moderate edge tears and faint creasing on front and rear panels (the striking design by Milton Glaser, on front panel, is bright). . Octavo, black cloth, 232 pages. Contains "Author's Note to the Second Edition" (a twenty line statement by Flannery O'Connor, written especially for this edition).

Faber & Faber. Hardcover. 0571179134 small rip to dj . Good.

Faber & Faber, London. 1968. 8vo, 232pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Tape remains on front end paper. Ex - library, with pocket at rear. Previous owner's name.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. PAPERBACK. 0374505845 New Condition. . New.

FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX. New. 7.9 x 5.58 cm.