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Jacket foxing with light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.

New York: Random House, 1979. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 515 pages. Review copy with laid in slip. The National Book Award winning novel from the author of "Lie Down in Darkness." The basis for the Alan Pakula directed movie with Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. Streep won an Oscar for her performance. A clean and tight near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with some slight sunning to and along the spine.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1979. Fine.. Franklin Library limited first edition of this tragic romance, adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Meryl Streep. Meryl Streep earned her first Academy Award for her role as the titular Sophie in the 1982 film adaptation of the novel. Contains a new introduction by Styron penned specifically for this edition, as well as original illustrations by Alan Reingold. Uncommon this complete. 9.25'' x 6''. Original brown guilt leather. All edges gilt. Silk moire endpapers. 624 pages. Illustrations by Alan Reingold. In original box, with Franklin Library "Notes from the Editors" booklet. Box with touches of wear. Else bright, tight, clean, and sharp.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First English edition. Bottom corners a little bumped, else fine in fine dustwrapper. 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.*.

New York: Random House, 1979. First trade edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This novel concerns the relationships among three people sharing a boarding house in Brooklyn: Stingo, a young aspiring writer from the South, Jewish scientist Nathan Landau, and his lover Sophie, a Polish-Catholic survivor of the German Nazi concentration camps, whom Stingo befriends. Basis for the big screen film directed by Alan J. Pakula, that stars Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. Meryl Streep won an Oscar for Best Actor for her role in this powerful rendering of Styron's novel.

New York: Random House, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Tall 8vo., 515pp. Sharp "Special" First Trade Edition that "...has been prepared for presentation to the friends of the author and publisher", as noted on a specially bound-in sheet before the flyleaf. Laid in is a note typed note on Random House letterhead, signed by Michael T. Pratt, Division B.P., Marketing and Sales, describing the volume. The note is dated April, 27, 1979, well before the announced publication date of June 11. Evidently, the final Trade Edition Dust-jacket was not ready so a plain glassine wrapper was provided with the book. Bound in blue cloth with titles in gilt and blue on spine and facsimile signature of the author in gilt on the front board. Square, tight and clean throughout with no toning or spotting. Some softness to spine ends. Spine and edges mildly toned. Glassine wrapper has a couple of tiny hole and some creasing. Spine toning. Signed by the author on a laid in bookplate. Made into the 1982 award winning film starring Meryl Streep. A sharp collectable copy of this uncommon production.

New York: Random House, 1979. First edition. Near fine.. Uncorrected proofs of this tragic romance, adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Meryl Streep. Meryl Streep earned her first Academy Award for her role as the titular Sophie in the 1982 film adaptation of the novel. 9.25'' x 6''. Original [publisher's printed red wrappers. 417 pages. Minor shelfwear, shelfsoil. Spine faintly sunned. Else clean and sharp.

New York: Random House, 1979. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, special edition for friends of the publisher and author. Very slight spine-fading, else fine, without the unprinted glassine dustwrapper. Letter from a Random House Vice President laid in, presenting the book. The first trade edition had a large printing, thus this special edition is particularly desirable. Meryl Streep won an Oscar for her portrayal of the title character in the 1982 film directed by Alan J. Pakula, which also featured Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol. A *Burgess 99* title and winner of the National Book Award.