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Go Down, Moses
by William Faulkner
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1942. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition in first state dust jacket with eight titles to rear jacket panel beginning with "Storm." Octavo. 383 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt and red; red topstain.
Price-clipped dust jacket chipped along edges with general creasing and rubbing. Boards show light shelfwear with mild and faint spotting to front and rear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Overall a Very Good copy of this collection of seven short stories, including "The Bear.
Price-clipped dust jacket chipped along edges with general creasing and rubbing. Boards show light shelfwear with mild and faint spotting to front and rear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Overall a Very Good copy of this collection of seven short stories, including "The Bear.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27792
- Title
- Go Down, Moses
- Author
- William Faulkner
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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