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A Death In The Family
by James Agee
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover with dust jacket, published by McDowell Obolensky, 1957. The dust jacket is intact, though it has been price clipped at the top corner of the front flap. Iconic cover design by Alfred Manso. This is a 1957 second state, fourth printing copy with the correction made to page 80 changing the word "walking" to 'waking". Dust jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover, so there is just a minimal amount of edge wear to the head and heel of the spine, as well as being price clipped. Blue cloth covered boards with the title and author name on the spine and front board as well as a blue-green mountain design on the front board. Spine lettering of the title is somewhat worn. Boards are flat and the corners are not creased or bumped, just minimal dots of edge wear at the tips of the corners. Wear mark on the ffep from what was probably the removable of a former owner's label, about 3 inches across, 1/2 inch tall. The title page retains the blue typography of the first edition.
340 pages, blue topstain appears to be only slightly faded. The binding is tight and square. A beautiful copy of this classic of American Literature. This is not a remainder, not a library copy. Published posthumously, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, adapted as a play and film titled 'All The Way Home'. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
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
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21-127
- Title
- A Death In The Family
- Author
- James Agee
- Illustrator
- Alfred Manso
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McDowell Obolensky
- Date Published
- 1957
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Tennessee, Historical Fiction, Knoxville
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Classics;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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