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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.

Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1952. 232 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Price-clipped DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped with pieces missing to the top edge of the front panel and a smaller chip present to the rear DJ panel). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his inborn, desperate fate. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Sabbath Lily. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Motes founds the Church Without Christ, but is still thwarted in his efforts to lose God. He meets Enoch Emery, a young man with "wise blood, " who leads him to a mummified holy child and whose crazy maneuvers are a manifestation of Motes's existential struggles. EB; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 232 pages.

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."

Yellow cloth boards are lightly soiled from age & handling, well-bound. Pages are clean & sharp throughout. Protected in mylar.

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."

Cloth 8vo. 232pp. Author's first book. Stated first printing.

First edition. About fine in a bright very good dust jacket with a number of modest chips and tears, and internal evidence of old tape repairs. Housed in a custom quarter leather clamshell case. A presentable copy, with the white jacket whiter than usual. The author's first book. *Burgess 99*.

Cloth 8vo. 232pp. Author's first book. Stated first printing.

First edition. About fine in a bright very good dust jacket with a number of modest chips and tears, and internal evidence of old tape repairs. Housed in a custom quarter leather clamshell case. A presentable copy, with the white jacket whiter than usual. The author's first book. *Burgess 99*.