Set This House on Fire (signed)
by WILLIAM STYRON
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- First Edition, First Printing; Signed by Styron on the title page. Fine ina very good plus dustjacket. Rose topstain. Contents/Very Good
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Styron on the title page. Fine in a very good plus dustjacket. Rose top stain. Contents fine, clean and bright. Dustjacket slightly worn and rubbed along edges, and spine head and tail. A lovely copy of the author's third novel, before Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice. A wonderful copy.
Synopsis
Set This House on Fire, is a novel by William Styron, set in Italy centred on the themes of evil and redemption. The narrator, Leverett, is a lawyer from the South, but the story is primarily told through the recollections of its protagonist, a troubled artist named Cass.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31565
- Title
- Set This House on Fire (signed)
- Author
- WILLIAM STYRON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - First Edition, First Printing; Signed by Styron on the title page. Fine ina very good plus dustjacket. Rose topstain. Contents
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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Grinning Cat Books
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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- Title Page
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...