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• Author: Flannery O'Connor
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Seller Description: Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket with none of the usual spine-fading on the dust jacket, and a little soiling not really worthy of the mention. The author's masterpiece, her second book and first book of short stories. A breathtaking collection of horror tales that probe the darkest heart of the South through the use of traditional "Southern Gothic" writing mixed with a nightmare vision seemingly derivative of German expressionism. The equal of, or superior to, any ... See More Details

Seller Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. A trifle rubbed at the bottom of the spine as always, still easily fine in a slightly rubbed very near fine dust jacket with almost none of the usual spine fading. Advance Review Copy with publisher's printed slip tipped to the front fly, with a pencil name (presumably of a potential reviewer) written on the top of the slip. The author's masterpiece, her second book and first book of short stories. A breathtaking collection of horror tales that probe ... See More Details

1955, Harcourt, Brace & Company Hardcover, Fine/Like New

Between the Covers-Rare Books HIGH Gloucester City, NJ, USA

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Seller Description: A near fine copy in a good to very good jacket with a number of tape reinforcements to verso. 243 pp. 8vo, Signed by O'Connor on the half-title page, and with her ms. correction on p. 242. On January 28, 1960, soon after she had received the book, Flannery O'Connor wrote to Cecil Dawkins that "The worst misprint was actually on the next to the last page. It is supposed to be 'he heard the command, ' and they have it, he heard to command, " which doesn't make sense." She also wrote that "The ... See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth. Near Fine with minor wear, in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip at the foot of the spine, trivial edge wear and light soiling. Uncommon in such nice condition. See More Details

Seller Description: Fine with no dust jacket. 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" See More Details

Seller Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. About fine in a nice very good or a little better dust jacket with offsetting along the edges of the front panel, and slight toning at the spine. A nice and pleasing copy. The author's first book. *Burgess 99*. See More Details

Seller Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. About fine in a bright very good dust jacket with a number of modest chips and tears, and internal evidence of old tape repairs. Housed in a custom quarter leather clamshell case. A presentable copy, with the white jacket whiter than usual. The author's first book. *Burgess 99*. See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. First printing. Glossy black cloth binding with bold pink and yellow spine titles. Book is square and tight, with extremely light edgewear, the most significant instance being a light crease at top of spine. Jacket is price-clipped, has a one-inch chip at top of rear flap fold and a 1/4 chip at the fold between the spine and rear panel. Light sunning and smudging, but despite these imperfections, this is a beautiful copy of one of the most celebrated works of mid ... See More Details

Seller Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. 243 p.; 21 cm. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1960. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, First Printing. 243 pp. Original red marble-patterned boards, grey cloth backstrip lettered in white. First edition with no statement of printing. Near Fine with faint bowing to boards, faint edge wear, sunning to spine cloth. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with sunned spine panel, small chip at front bottom ... See More Details

Seller Description: Benny Andrews. Fine in fine dust jacket. Includes illustrations. O Connor s shivery story set in the mid 20th century South that the celebrated artist, Benny Andrews, knew all too well. The two lived only thirty miles from one another, but worlds and worlds apart, in Georgia farm country. Why he chose this book, this author, he will tell you in his brilliant Afterword. The white O Connor flourished within the system. Andrews, a son of black sharecroppers, flourished in spite of it. Imagine. ... See More Details

Seller Description: 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. Cloth 8vo. 232pp. Author's first book. Stated first printing. See More Details

Seller Description: 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. See More Details

Seller Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. A fine, bright copy in near fine dust jacket but for some toning along the top of the rear panel and a couple of tiny tears. Author's third book, and the last published in her lifetime. Advance Review Copy with publisher's printed slip laid in. A nicer than usual copy. See More Details

1960, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy Hardcover, Fine/Like New

Between the Covers-Rare Books HIGH Gloucester City, NJ, USA

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Seller Description: Good. No Jacket. Book Yellow cloth boards are lightly soiled from age & handling, well-bound. Pages are clean & sharp throughout. Protected in mylar. See More Details

Seller Description: Review copy first edition, first state book with "tyring" on page 125; first-issue dust jacket with reviews for Wise Blood on rear panel of O'Connor's classic work. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with the review slip attached to the front free endpaper. These ten stories-ranked by many readers as some of O'Connor's strongest work and consistently lauded as masterfully crafted classics of modern American short fiction-take place in a rural South "that somehow ... See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1952. 232 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Price-clipped DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped with pieces missing to the top edge of the front panel and a smaller chip present to the rear DJ panel). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. ... See More Details

Seller Description: pp. 232. 8vo. Yellow cloth binding. Edgewear, contents clean and unmarked, binding sound; very good. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with a one-inch square chip at the bottom of the spine, and smaller chips at head of spine, age-toning, and a couple of closed tears. The first printing of O'Connor's first novel, which was made into a film by the same name, released in 1979 and directed by John Huston. See More Details

Seller Description: VG in VG jacket. STATED FIRST EDITION. FIRST STATE BOOK & DJ (TYPO ERROR, PAGE 125, TYRING, WISE BLOOD BLURBS TO REAR PANEL DJ. UNCLIPPED 3.50 (SMALL CHIP TO THE 3), OWNER'S SEAL TO FFEP. FADING TO THE PUB. NAME TO SPINE AREA OF DJ. BOOK TITLE IS UNFADED. See More Details

Seller Description: Some very faint foxing to half-title and verso of the frontispiece; else a fine copy in a fine jacket. 269 pp. 8vo, See More Details

Seller Description: 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. See More Details

Seller Description: Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket with the tiniest tear. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip, photograph of O'Connor, and a publisher's promotional letter laid in. A beautiful copy of this collection of nine short stories, published posthumously. See More Details

1965, Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN-13: 9780571116140 Hardcover, Fine/Like New

Between the Covers-Rare Books HIGH Gloucester City, NJ, USA

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Seller Description: NF/VG. AUTHOR'S THIRD BOOK/"FIRST EDITION" NOT STATED ON THE COPYRIGHT PAGE AS IS THE CASE WITH THIS TITLE. D.J. HAS A SMALL BIT OF WEAR AT THE CORNERS WITH WEAR, SHORT TEARS, AND SHALLOW SURFACE CHIPS AT THE SPINE TOP, A ONE INCH TEAR AT THE TOP OF THE FRONT PANEL NEAR THE SPINE, AND SOME MODEST TANNING OF THE WHITE AREAS OF THE DJ. A NICE COPY. See More Details

Seller Description: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Edited and with an introduction by Sally Fitzgerald. Fine in wrappers. A nice copy of this splendid collection of letters. Scarce. See More Details

1978, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Softcover, Fine/Like New

Between the Covers-Rare Books HIGH Gloucester City, NJ, USA

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Seller Description: First edition. (No statement of printing, as called for, unlike most of publisher's titles. ) [x], 243 pp. Bound in publisher's red marble-patterned boards, gray cloth backstrip lettered in white and gray, blue topstain. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine panel, light wear, unclipped. The acclaimed Southern author's first published novel. See More Details

Seller Description: A fine copy in an unchipped and untanned jacket with just a few specks of foxing at the bottom of the spine. A very nice copy of this important collection. 555 pp. Large 8vo, See More Details