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Random House, 1979-04-12. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. From the second endpaper: "This special edition has been prepared for presentation to the friends of the author and the publisher". The volume is sunned on the top edges and spine area. The tissue jacket is spine and edge toned, and has tiny tears and shallow chips on the edges. The glassine jacket has a curved 1" tear on the spine crown.

Dust jacket has some sunning to the spine and a little edge wear. Dust jacket protected by removable Brodart cover.

First trade edition. Owner name on front fly, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, near fine lacking the dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award, Meryl Streep won an Oscar for her portrayal of the title character in the 1982 film directed by Alan J. Pakula, and that also featured Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol. *Burgess 99.*.

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Publisher: Random Date of Publication: 1979 Binding: Hardcover Condition: This is the only stated Random Edition from 1979. Other than a bit of writing on the inside back cover, the book is in excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc. --and the pages and binding are tight as a drum (they still crackle).

Stated First Edition, first printing with full Random House number line in fine/ like new condition. The pages are clean and crisp, in like new condition, with no bent corners. Boards are as new, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket has a tiny bit of shelf wear, but no nicks or tears, and is now protected by a mylar cover. The dust jacket is clipped. Attractive book with no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 1979. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1979 Random House FIRST edition. FIRST printing in F/F condition. The HB shows no bumps and no wear on the crimson boards or on the spine, including its lettering. The books is clean and tight with no foxing spots. The unclipped DJ has very minor wear and one crimson spot on the top of the DJ front. Overall a beautiful copy of a 42 year old classic. The 1982 Alan J. Pakula film won a Oscar and Golden Globe for Meryl Streep. It also was for Kevin Kline's Film Debut (eventually he won a Supporting Actor Oscar winner in 1988). **Brenbooks specializes in first edition books made into films.

Signed. Inscribed by author to former owner. First trade edition. DJ not price-clipped; mild edgewear and bumping; sunning to spine. Quite a bit of foxing to upper edge of pages, some on outer edge and bottom. Boards good with some edgewear and fading. Pictures available upon request.

BOOK: Corners, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Boards, Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Fading Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A Novel. ALSO KNOWN AS: Portions of this book previously appeared in Esquire. MOVIE TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for the 1982 feature film of the same name. SYNOPSIS: Sophie's Choice unfolds a story as absorbing and effective and memorable as any work of fiction in our time. It is written at full tilt, and the mastery of its style and the power of its narrative never falter. Stingo came to Brooklyn by way of Virginia and the Marine Corps-with a brief sojourn as a manuscript reader at McGraw-Hill. He settled in Yetta Zimmerman's pink-painted rooming house, where the rent was cheap enough for a young man with only a few hundred dollars to devote himself to the novel he wanted to write. Sophie and Nathan lived upstairs, as he agonizingly discovered when their rocking bed threatened to collapse the ceiling. Thus began a strange relationship: Sophie, the Polish Catholic girl whose wrist bore the grim stamp of a concentration camp...Nathan, her lover, the charismatic Jewish intellectual...and the narrator Stingo, the sex-starved "South'n" boy who was instantly captivated by Sophie's vulnerable blond beauty. As Stingo struggles with his book-and tries desperately to cope with his growing but unrequited love for the woman upstairs-he also becomes Sophie's confidant, irresistibly absorbed in the harrowing story she tells of Nathan's obsessive jealousy and her own unshakable devotion to him. And as Nathan and Sophie's quarrels intensify, and Stingo is drawn even more into her life, she is compelled, bit by bit, to confront her past-a past strewn with death that she alone survived. In Sophie's Choice, William Styron gives us a love story so hauntingly evocative that it, and its heroine, will become an indelible part of the reader's imagination and our literature. William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia. He served almost three years in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, and after the war, returned to complete his studies at Duke University. Lie Down in Darkness, William Styron's first novel, appeared in 1951. For that initial work, he was awarded the Prix de Rome of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Two years later his short novel The Long March was published, followed by Set This House on Fire (1960), The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), which received the Pulitzer Prize for 1967, and a play, In the Clap Shack (1973).