Set This House on Fire
by Styron, William
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1960. First edition, stated first printing. Black cloth, 507 pages plus author's biography, dustjacket. Very light edgewear, good hinges, sound text block, outer edge of text block lightly foxed, pages clean and free from names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and has some light edge rubbing and a few very, very tiny edge chips, small crease and surface scuff at lower corner of front panel, little paper loss. A clean and sound copy.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Set This House on Fire, is a novel by William Styron, set in Italy centred on the themes of evil and redemption. The narrator, Leverett, is a lawyer from the South, but the story is primarily told through the recollections of its protagonist, a troubled artist named Cass.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022486
- Title
- Set This House on Fire
- Author
- Styron, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- AMERICAN FICTION AUTHORS NOVELS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....