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Go Down, Moses (First Modern Library Edition, ML #175.4)
by FAULKNER, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1955. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1955 (confirmed by number of ML titles on jacket verso). William Faulkner's examination of black/white relations in his native Mississippi takes the unique form of seven complementary short stories. Volume wrapped in bright blue, black and yellow variant jacket. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 372 titles in ML catalog. ML #175.4. --- With discreet bookseller label to front free endpaper & slight wear to cover edges, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing, slight spine darkening and mild chafing to edges, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); (8), 383 pages .
Synopsis
Go Down, Moses is a collection of Faulkner's stories that once strung together, tell the composite history of the McCaslin family, specifically of the white and black descendants of Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin and the residents of the plantation he founded.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85685
- Title
- Go Down, Moses (First Modern Library Edition, ML #175.4)
- Author
- FAULKNER, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
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About the Seller
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Good+
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 12mo
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