New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. [c.1969-70]. Hardcover. 0394601750 . A Modern Library reprint edition of William Faulkner's examination of black/white relations in his native Mississippi. This unique work takes the form of seven complementary short stories. In simple typographical dust jacket variant. --- In Toledano spine 14 in black cloth-look paper-covered boards / titling & torchbearer stamped in silver on spine / ml device blindstamped to front cover / blue & yellow Fujita endpapers. Volume bears 1955 date but likely published c.1969-70. Jacket style o, verso is blank. ML #175.4. --- A tightly-bound, clean and unmarked copy though with a hint of soiling to cloth. Price-clipped dust jacket with tears to extremities (especially to spine ends) but remaining bright, mostly intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); (8), 383, (8, ads) pages .

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Go Down, Moses is a collection of Faulkner's stories that once strung together, tell the composite history of the McCaslin family, specifically of the white and black descendants of Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin and the residents of the plantation he founded.

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Bookseller: Bluebird Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 86799
Title: Go Down, Moses (Modern Library #175.4)
Author: FAULKNER, William
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
ISBN 10: 0394601750
ISBN 13: 9780394601755
Publisher: The Modern Library / Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: [c.1969-70]
Keywords: 0394601750

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Device: Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
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