James Agee / A Death in the Family First Edition 1957 - Good Condition
$125.00
McDowell, Obolensky, New York, 1957. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First Printing of Agee's Pulitzer prize-winning meditation on his southern childhood. First Issue, with title page printed in blue and an error: "walking" for "waking" on p.80. Tall, thick 8vo: [10],339,[3]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in silver and green foil, tan end papers; illustrated dust jacket, price clipped. Usual fading to spine and board edges, else Fine, Good jacket, vivid and bright. Contains previous owner's markings in the margins in pen. Ahearn, p. 64. Published posthumously, based on the manuscript Agee left behind (portions had appeared in The Partisan Review, The Cambridge Review, The New Yorker, and Harper's Bazaar). Edited by David McDowell, who added the brief prologue, Knoxville: Summer, 1915. "As an overture to the novel, this evocative section, although not part of Agee's original manuscript, is extremely effective, for it introduces the theme of lost childhood happiness that is central . . . ." (Literary Encyclopedia).Please contact us with any questions.Shipped with USPS Media Mail.
McDowell, Obolensky, New York, 1957. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First Printing of Agee's Pulitzer prize-winning meditation on his southern childhood. First Issue, with title page printed in blue and an error: "walking" for "waking" on p.80. Tall, thick 8vo: [10],339,[3]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in silver and green foil, tan end papers; illustrated dust jacket, price clipped. Usual fading to spine and board edges, else Fine, Good jacket, vivid and bright. Contains previous owner's markings in the margins in pen. Ahearn, p. 64. Published posthumously, based on the manuscript Agee left behind (portions had appeared in The Partisan Review, The Cambridge Review, The New Yorker, and Harper's Bazaar). Edited by David McDowell, who added the brief prologue, Knoxville: Summer, 1915. "As an overture to the novel, this evocative section, although not part of Agee's original manuscript, is extremely effective, for it introduces the theme of lost childhood happiness that is central . . . ." (Literary Encyclopedia).Please contact us with any questions.Shipped with USPS Media Mail.
McDowell, Obolensky, New York, 1957. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First Printing of Agee's Pulitzer prize-winning meditation on his southern childhood. First Issue, with title page printed in blue and an error: "walking" for "waking" on p.80. Tall, thick 8vo: [10],339,[3]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in silver and green foil, tan end papers; illustrated dust jacket, price clipped. Usual fading to spine and board edges, else Fine, Good jacket, vivid and bright. Contains previous owner's markings in the margins in pen. Ahearn, p. 64. Published posthumously, based on the manuscript Agee left behind (portions had appeared in The Partisan Review, The Cambridge Review, The New Yorker, and Harper's Bazaar). Edited by David McDowell, who added the brief prologue, Knoxville: Summer, 1915. "As an overture to the novel, this evocative section, although not part of Agee's original manuscript, is extremely effective, for it introduces the theme of lost childhood happiness that is central . . . ." (Literary Encyclopedia).Please contact us with any questions.Shipped with USPS Media Mail.