A Death in the Family
by AGEE, JAMES
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Moderate sun-fading to extremities, else near fine in very good, chipped dust jacket.
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate sun-fading to extremities, else near fine in very good, chipped dust jacket.. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. 339, [3] pp. Original full blue cloth, titles in silver with simple mountain design stamped in green on upper cover & spine; in wonderful blue illustrated dust jacket. First Issue, with 'walking' for 'waking' on p. 80. Title page printed in blue. Posthumous winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Synopsis
A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by author James Agee, set in Knoxville, Tennessee. He began writing it in 1948, but it was not quite complete when he died in 1955. It was edited and released posthumously in 1957 by editor David McDowell. Agee's widow and children were left with little money after Agee's death and McDowell wanted to help them by publishing the work. Agee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958 for the novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 254
- Title
- A Death in the Family
- Author
- AGEE, JAMES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate sun-fading to extremities, else near fine in very good, chipped dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McDowell, Obolensky
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
Terms of Sale
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Irving Book Company
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Asheville, North Carolina
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