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The author's first book. Tenth printing of the second edition. Foxing to edges-heavy on the fore edge-and endpapers, else good in a good (faded out along the spine, age toning, foxing on verso) dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Milton Glaser.; 232 pages.

232pp. Black cloth boards, gilt titles on spine. Red topstain. Pages bright, clean and unmarked. Vividly colored red-orange dust jacket is intact, not price clipped, with original $4.50 price on front jacket flap. Jacket spine sun faded, with a single nick about 2/3 of the way down. Jacket in new mylar sleeve. O'Connor's first novel, originally published in 1952, comprised of a number of stories originally published in Madameoiselle, The Sewanee Review, and Partisan Review. Though it didn't draw major critical attention upon its release, it has since become an acknowledged classic. The filmmaker John Huston adapted O'Connor's book as a 1979 film.

The author's first book. Tenth printing of the second edition. Foxing to edges-heavy on the fore edge-and endpapers, else good in a good (faded out along the spine, age toning, foxing on verso) dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Milton Glaser.; 232 pages.

232pp. Black cloth boards, gilt titles on spine. Red topstain. Pages bright, clean and unmarked. Vividly colored red-orange dust jacket is intact, not price clipped, with original $4.50 price on front jacket flap. Jacket spine sun faded, with a single nick about 2/3 of the way down. Jacket in new mylar sleeve. O'Connor's first novel, originally published in 1952, comprised of a number of stories originally published in Madameoiselle, The Sewanee Review, and Partisan Review. Though it didn't draw major critical attention upon its release, it has since become an acknowledged classic. The filmmaker John Huston adapted O'Connor's book as a 1979 film.

An uncommon first British edition of Flannery O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood, in the original striking Guy Nicholls dust wrapper. The first British edition. First published in the US by Harcourt in 1952. In the original price clipped dust wrapper, designed by Guy Nicholls. Wise Blood is the first novel by American author Flannery O'Connor, and is an expanded version of her thesis work entitled 'The Train'. It tells the story of a World War Two veteran, who, after struggling with his faith, decides to set up an anti-religious ministry in a Southern town. Upon release, the work received little critical attention, but was later heralded as an important work of 'low comedy and high seriousness'. In the original publisher's orange cloth binding in the original price clipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart with just minor fading to the extremities of the spine and rear board, possibly caused by tape offsetting. Evidence of label removal to paste downs and very small chip to upper corner of front free endpaper. Dust wrapper is generally smart and has been reinforced with clear archival adhesive., which is beginning to chip to the tail of the spine. The occasional closed tear and spot to the wrap. Age toning to wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good.

The author's acclaimed debut novel, very good in mint facsimile dust jacket, in fresh mylar cover; minor rubbing and foxing to board edges, light soiling/scuffing to boards else a tight square unmarked copy in professional facsimile dust jacket; stated first edition; photos on request; 232 pages.

An uncommon first British edition of Flannery O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood, in the original striking Guy Nicholls dust wrapper. The first British edition. First published in the US by Harcourt in 1952. In the original price clipped dust wrapper, designed by Guy Nicholls. Wise Blood is the first novel by American author Flannery O'Connor, and is an expanded version of her thesis work entitled 'The Train'. It tells the story of a World War Two veteran, who, after struggling with his faith, decides to set up an anti-religious ministry in a Southern town. Upon release, the work received little critical attention, but was later heralded as an important work of 'low comedy and high seriousness'. In the original publisher's orange cloth binding in the original price clipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart with just minor fading to the extremities of the spine and rear board, possibly caused by tape offsetting. Evidence of label removal to paste downs and very small chip to upper corner of front free endpaper. Dust wrapper is generally smart and has been reinforced with clear archival adhesive., which is beginning to chip to the tail of the spine. The occasional closed tear and spot to the wrap. Age toning to wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good.

The author's acclaimed debut novel, very good in mint facsimile dust jacket, in fresh mylar cover; minor rubbing and foxing to board edges, light soiling/scuffing to boards else a tight square unmarked copy in professional facsimile dust jacket; stated first edition; photos on request; 232 pages.

pp. 232. 8vo. Yellow cloth binding. Edgewear, contents clean and unmarked, binding sound; very good. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with a one-inch square chip at the bottom of the spine, and smaller chips at head of spine, age-toning, and a couple of closed tears. The first printing of O'Connor's first novel, which was made into a film by the same name, released in 1979 and directed by John Huston.

First edition of O'Connor's powerful first novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. Assembled from disparate stories first published in Mademoiselle, Sewanee Review and Partisan Review, Flannery O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood, has come to be appreciated as a work of "low comedy and high seriousness". Themes of redemption, racism, sexism, and isolation are prevalent throughout the novel which O'Connor stated was about "freedom, free will, life and death, and the inevitability of belief."