Absalom, Absalom!
by Faulkner, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Publishers' cream cloth binding, lettered in red. Rather soiled and browned and with wear to extremities. A good and sound copy, the paper yellowing a little. The front free endpaper has an ownership inscription. 384 pages, folding map at rear. Approx. size 12.5" by 9.5". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 27808. .
Synopsis
William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury , Absalom, Absalom! , and As I Lay Dying , among many other remarkable books. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France’s Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Steve Liddle (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27808
- Title
- Absalom, Absalom!
- Author
- Faulkner, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- BZDB28 american writer writers fiction slavery Fiction; Absalom Absalom Faulkner William
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Steve Liddle
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About the Seller
Steve Liddle
Biblio member since 2009
Bristol, Avon
About Steve Liddle
Full time bookseller since 1982. Bookshops in Bristol and Bath ( as Patterson & Liddle )1982- 2006. Member ABA ILAB PBFA. Regular exhibitor at major UK bookfairs.
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- Jacket
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- Soiled
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- Cloth
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- Fair
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- First Edition
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