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Fox's Earth - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Siddons, Anne Rivers
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0671249622
- ISBN 13
- 9780671249625
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0671249622 . First edition/first printing, quarter bound in red cloth and red boards, prior owner's name on front free endpaper, light spots to page edges in Very Good+ condition in Near Fine, slightly rubbed dust-jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by author Anne Rivers Siddons directly on the title page; The Foxes were a powerful Southern family and five generations of their women found Fox's Earth to be a both a great inheritance and a confining prison. Ruth Yancey, adopted into the family from mill-worker parents, is obsessed with power and is determined that the estate will never again fall in the hands of men. Over a period of eighty years, her drive to possess Fox's Earth costs her everything, including her family. This is Siddons' third novel and fourth book; 8vo; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
When it comes to depicting the modern American South, Anne River Siddons is unrivaled. In Fox's Earth , called "psychologically astute and excellently written" by Cosmopolitan , she pens a dark but seductive tale of five generations of Southern women and the house that was at once both their greatest inheritance and their most confining prison. In 1904, Ruth Yancey is only ten years old when she is brought to live at the magnificent mansion called Fox's Earth. But the impoverished daughter of an abusive mill worker has already internalized her mother's steely code: Men may hold all the power, but a woman possesses one thing that can get her anything in the world she wants...if she's prepared to make certain sacrifices. Deserted by her mother in order to give her a better chance at wealth, Ruth's own ambition drives her to possess Fox's Earth at any cost, even though her sacrifice will ultimately be her own husband, children, and grandchildren.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20053
- Title
- Fox's Earth - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Siddons, Anne Rivers
- Format/Binding
- 1/4 Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0671249622
- ISBN 13
- 9780671249625
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Southern Authors, Authors Georgia, Southern Fiction, Southern Literature
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