Search Results: the wandering of desire by montgomery marion

This is a solid, complete, first edition copy of this Faulknerian novel of the deep South. At some sad point, it got damp in some southern hurricane. Still, it dried, and there is a book here, his first novel, tight and complete, and offered at a much discounted cost..
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This is a solid, complete, first edition copy of this Faulknerian novel of the deep South.  At  some sad point, it got damp in some southern hurricane.  Still, it dried, and there is a good book here, his first novel, tight and complete, and offered at a much discounted cost.
Photos on request.

Paperback / softback. New.

US: Harper & Brothers, 1962. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good -/Very Good -. First Edition. Mustard-yellow cloth over boards with green-debossed particulars and decoration to spine; green-debossed publisher's emblem to front board. '59' marked in black to first free endpaper and light foxing to gutters of fly leaves; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Text block is soiled and sunned; fore edge is deckled. Boards are lightly soiled with light sunning to top edge; scuffing to lower edge; corners and ends of spine bumped. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket has rubbing to front cover with light creasing, rubbing and chipping to edges, corners and ends of spine. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

E-372. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harper and Brothers, New York. 1962. 301 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This novel of life and changing times in Georgia is full of local scenery, characters; dialect and jokes, but the main story jumps around so in time- and in point of view- that it is difficult to follow. Roughly, there is Wash Mullis, once a shrewd youngster working in the sawmills who came to own the town and the land, and begot many children, legitimate and otherwise. Now Wash is old, and has but three sons and a Negro woman left. The woman gives birth to a child who may be the son of Wash's rival, Edward Blalock, the local veterinary. Doc Blalock, who wants to take over the… Read More

Hardback. New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

NY: Harper & Brothers (1962)., 1962. First printing. 8vo. 301 pp. + [1] page About the Author. Original mustard-colored binding. Montgomery's first novel. Faint foxing top edge else this is a tight, fine book in DJ with some spinal rubbing and very light dust soil, very good plus.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1962., 1962. Uncorrected Proof of the author's first novel. Square 8vo. Unpaginated. Ring-bound with printed paper label front cover. Laid in is a ALS from Gerald Bechan dated October 23, 1973, Georgia College Library, to Marion Montgomery, sending him to proof which was part of Flannery O'Connor's personal library. O'Connor and Montgomery were very close. She wrote the jacket blurb for this novel and Montgomery went on to become the most astute and philosophically far-reaching critic of her life and writings with the books "Why Flannery O'Connor Stayed Home" and "Hillbilly Thomist. Flannery O'Connor, St. Thomas, and the Limits of Art." The front cover at the tabs is detached, but present, else this is a near fine proof. Very uncommon.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine.