You Can't Go Home Again
by Thomas Wolfe
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1947. Cloth Bound Boards. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1947 first edition. Size octavo, 7.75" tall, 600 pages. Black cloth covered boards with green and gilt titling to the front cover and spine. No dust jacket. Condition good, hinges loose, corners and spine ends rubbed, spine slightly faded, previous owner's name on the front paste-down, the pages are slightly toned otherwise clean. Thomas Wolfe was an American novelist of the early twentieth century. He wrote several big novels Look Homeward Angel 1929, Of Time and the River 1935. The Web and the Rock was written in 1939 but published posthumously the precursor to You Can't Go Home Again. He also wrote many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. His works vividly recreate American culture from the 1920s to 1940s.
Synopsis
Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again tells the poignant story of a successful novelist, ostracized by family and friends, who subsequently embarks on a world-wide search for his own identity and personal renewal.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017838
- Title
- You Can't Go Home Again
- Author
- Thomas Wolfe
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Bound Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 600
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL 20TH CENTURY FICTION NON FICTION USA U.S.A. AMERICAN
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
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Blackpool, Lancashire
About Lazarus Books Limited
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Spine
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