STILL WARPPED IN FACTORY PLASTIC--AS NEW--VERY NICE COPY--VERY SLIGHT SHELF WARE--TEXT CLEAN AND TIGHT--GIFT--STILL HAS LOTS OF GREAT READS LEFT---1 ST. ED. --1 ST. PRINTING
Stated First Trade Edition of Styron masterpiece. Book boards and text block in very good condition, sharp edges, clean and bright pages. Some folds and discoloration to dust cover
Very minor rubbing to the edges and corners. Minor soiling to the lower exterior page edges. Stated First Trade Edition. Binding is tight and square. DJ is protected by a mylar cover.
New York:: Random House,, 1979.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a very good dust jacket (name on front pastedown, mostly hidden by dj flap, crease to front flap of dj, minor edgewear to dj, original price of 12.95 still present.). First trade edition. Novel of the Holocaust, and its effects on a woman who survived the death camps. Winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Oscar award winning movie of the same name, featuring Meryl Streep. 515 pp.
{6 & 3/8' x 9 & 1/2'} in edgeworn dustjacket with small tears. Brown cloth covered boards with gold (and silver) lettering upon spine, beginning to fade. On front board facsimile of author's signature is also stamped in gold. Sandstone color end pages with writing in red ballpoint upper right corner of ffep. Tiny blind stamped square indicating this is a book club edition in lower right corner of rear board. Binding is sound, despite slight pulling head of spine. [516 pages]
Random House, 1979-04-12. Hardcover. Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Very good in very good dust jacket. Later printing.
New York: Random House, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus. Styron's fifth novel, the story of the relationship between three people living in a Brooklyn rooming house -- Sophie, a Polish Catholic concentration camp survivor; her lover, Nathan, a Jewish intellectural; and Stringo, the narrator, an ex-Marine trying to become a writer. The book won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and was the basis for the 1982 film starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. First trade edition, first printing (as stated, with complete numberline). About 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, 515 pages in red cloth-covered boards with author's signature in gold on front cover and gold lettering on spine. Dustjacket's graphic front panel shows author and title in different shades of red against a tan background with "A Novel" in black across bottom of panel. Back dj panel centers a b & w photo of Styron by Nancy Compton on tan background. Boards show a faint, narrow line of color loss on some edges. Text edges show a touch of soiling and two, tiny, almost unnoticeable dents on fore edge. O/w, boards and text are complete, clean, and unmarked in tight, square binding. Dustjacket is price-clipped and spine is sun-faded. Both DJ panels have vertical creases at fore edges where previous owner tried to correct for off-center spine. The DJ is o/w clean, with very minimal surface and edge wear. A not-perfect-but-still-very-decent first edition copy of this 20th century landmark novel.
New York: Random House, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First trade edition. Bottom corners and foot of spine lightly bumped, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine, a bit of delamination on the rear panel, and a crease on the front flap. 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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