LIGHT IN AUGUST
by Faulkner, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 480 pages. In Very Good condition with Fair dust jacket. Blue and gray spine with faded red text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has half of spine detached from tail edge, corners and head edge of spine chipped off, tearing to all edges of both covers, moderate edge wear and shelf wear, and creasing to both covers and spine. Boards have mild edge wear and shelf wear. Text block has moderate toning to endpapers and stamp on front pastedown. Shelved in Case 13. 1370910. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Synopsis
Light in August is a 1932 novel by the American author William Faulkner. Light in August is an exploration of racial conflict in the society of the Southern United States. Originally Faulkner planned to call the novel Dark House, which also became the working title for Absalom, Absalom! Supposedly, one summer evening while sitting on a porch, his wife remarked on the strange quality that light in the south has during the month of August.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1370910
- Title
- LIGHT IN AUGUST
- Author
- Faulkner, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Harrison Smith and Robert Haas
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- William Faulkner, American Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
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Glossary
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....