New York: Random House, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine tight copy (ownership signature to verso of last page) with remainder mark (the Random 'house'), in a near fine, clean dust jacket with a closed tear to the top of the rear panel. This copy is inscribed by Foote on the front endpaper, "For / Michael Hargraves / displaced in Frisco / from / Shelby Foote / Memphis Nov 1982." In this novel, a magisterial historian of the Civil War charts its distant repercussions in the streets of the contemporary South. By turns wryly comic, ribald, and chilling, a convincing thriller and a powerful tragicomedy of race.

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Shelby Foote was born on November 7, 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi, and attended school there until he entered the University of North Carolina. During World War II he served as a captain of field artillery but never saw combat. After World War II he worked briefly for the Associated Press in their New York bureau. In 1953 he moved to Memphis, where he lived for the remainder of his life.Foote was the author of six novels: Tournament , Follow Me Down , Love in a Dry Season , Shiloh , Jordan County , and September, September . He is best remembered for his 3-volume history The Civil War: A Narrative , which took twenty years to complete and resulted in his being a featured expert in Ken Burns' acclaimed Civil War documentary. Over the course of his writing career, Foote was also awarded three Guggenheim fellowships.Shelby Foote died in 2005 at the age of 88.

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Bookseller: Ed Smith Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 13168
Title: SEPTEMBER, SEPTEMBER
Author: Foote, Shelby
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - A near fine tight copy (ownership signature to verso of last page) with remainder mark (the Random 'house'), in a near fine, cle
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1977
Keywords: signed and inscribed, modern literature, race, contemporary South

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