You Can't Go Home Again
by Wolfe, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus to Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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SANTA BARBARA, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First edition stated with correct H - P code on copyright page. Unmarked, tight and square but for vintage bookplate under front flap of jacket. Head of spine crimped. Light dust soiling to top page edges. Price intact jacket has small chip at base of spine and moderate edgewear. Classic novel about a Lost Modern who found himself. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus to Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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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- Bookseller
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015402
- Title
- You Can't Go Home Again
- Author
- Wolfe, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus to Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; Modern Classic Author's;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
SANTA BARBARA, California
About Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
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