The Hangman's Children by Donald Hays - 1989-06

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

425 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter pink cloth with silver lettering to spine over green boards with blind-stamped "A" to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Hays's second novel (after The Dixie Association ) does not stick to the '60s situation with which it initially commands attention--Will the authorities catch up with a young man who has burnt his draft card?--but it never entirely loses its pull on the reader. Three major characters take turns telling the story: the young man, Jesse Lee Cantwell, his current girlfriend, Gloria Alice Dawn, and his father. All Arkansas and Missouri natives, the youngsters are otherwise typical of the middle-class rebels of the time; but not the father, Samuel Langhorne Maledon, a genial, cynical carnival con man who has never done much for his son (who was reared by a rich stepfather). Maledon's attempts now to save Jesse from the law are ingenious and entertaining, but halfway through the long, involved… Read More

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 1989. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: Atlantic Monthly, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Novel set in summer of 1968. First printing.

Atlantic Monthly Press. 1989. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Price clipped.. 425 p. Audience: General/trade. . No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. remainder mark. .

New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1989. First Printing. Hardcover. 0871133091 . Ding impressed into the spine of the cover and the dustjacket. DJ has some other slight edge wear. .

Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; ...; Hardcover. Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1989. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Overall, a clean and tight copy. . Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. .

New York: Morgan Entrekin/The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. Very good with light soiling at bottom edge of front cover and light rubbing at corners. Dust jacket is near fine. 425 pages.. First Edition. Green Bds. w/pink Cloth Spine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.