This grand misadventure is the story of three unlikely thieves, or reivers: 11-year-old Lucius Priest and two of his family's retainers. In 1905, these three set out from Mississippi for Memphis in a stolen motorcar. The astonishing and complicated results reveal Faulkner as a master of the picaresque.
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This grand misadventure is the story of three unlikely thieves, or reivers: 11-year-old Lucius Priest and two of his family's retainers. In 1905, these three set out from Mississippi for Memphis in a stolen motorcar. The astonishing and complicated results reveal Faulkner as a master of the picaresque.
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Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN:
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN:
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Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN:
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None. Near Fine in Very Good Indeed jacket. Smart first US and UK editions of William Faulkner's picaresque novel about two young men on a journey to Memphis. In two volumes, being the first US and UK edition of this work, published in the same year. The first edition, first impressions. In the original publisher's unclipped dustwrappers. 'The Reivers' is a novel set in the first decade of the twentieth century, following a young boy name Lucius Priest, who accompanies his friend, Boon Hogganbeck, to Memphis, where Boon hopes to marry Miss Corrie. Written by the noted American author William Faulkner, who is well known for his novels 'As I Lay Dying', and 'The Sound and the Fury'. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrappers. Externally, smart. A very small amount of bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. A few spots to the fore edge of the UK edition. Minor edgewear to the dustwrappers. US edition dustwrapper with some discolouration to the reverse, and sunning to the spine, with a few light marks to the dustwrapper. A few light spots to the reverse of the dustwrapper of the UK edition, with light marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. The occasional pencil line to the margins of the UK edition. Near Fine.