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Wise Blood.
de O'CONNOR, Flannery
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London, United Kingdom
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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.
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Wise Blood was the first novel written by U.S. Southern author Flannery O'Connor.
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- Peter Harrington
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 109887
- Título
- Wise Blood.
- Autor
- O'CONNOR, Flannery
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Lugar de publicación
- New York: Harcourt Brace & Company,
- Fecha de publicación
- 1952
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Peter Harrington
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
London
Sobre 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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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- 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...
