Oconnor Flannery 1925 (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; xviii, [4], 617 pp. ; LCCN: 78-11559 ; ISBN: 0374167699 ; Dewey: 813/.5/4 ; LC: PS3565.C57Z48 1978 ; black cloth with gold lettering and green designs, in nicked dustjacket ; spine starting at pg 616/617 ; G. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Neville Spearman 1957). First UK Edition, first impression in dustwrapper priced 13s 6d net to the inside flap. 251 pp. Publisher's crimson-red paper-covered boards with simulated cloth grain, lettered in gilt to the spine. Boards bright and clean. No inscriptions. Spine tips bruised. Dusty top edge. Very light foxing to the top and fore-edge. Some evidence of damp at the rear of the book affecting the rear end-paper and rear paste-down and - to a very small extent - the right-hand edge of pages 248 through 251. Overall about very good. The very good dustwrapper has the usual sun fading invariably seen and has minor loss at the head and tail of the spine not affecting any lettering. There is damp staining to the verso of part of the back panel which can just been seen to the front side to the rear panel and the rear free flap. Retitled British edition of O'Connor's first short story collection and second published work, published in the US in 1955 as 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'. The collection contains probably her best short story 'A Good Man is Hard to Find', but her British publishers, Neville Spearman, opted for another short story as the title. O'Connor's "position with regard to race relations is a difficult and contentious one. Stories like 'The Artificial Nigger' and 'Everything that Rises Must Converge', which deal explicitly with race, can seem to moralize against racism while themselves rehearsing racist portrayals of African-Americans. NB: One of only 2,000 copies. Quite uncommon in the UK first edition. Further photographs available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine-. First Edition. First Impression of the author's first collection of short stories, one of only 2000 copies printed. 8vo: 251,[1]pp. Publisher's crimson paper-covered boards with simulated cloth grain, spine lettered in gilt; strikingly illustrated dust jacket printed in brown and red, priced 13s/6d. About Fine (offsetting to end papers), bright and tight without foxing, stains or inscriptions; about Fine jacket, very lightly rubbed to tips of spine panel. Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of most UK editions of American authors's works. Farmer A2.I.b.1. Originally published in New York, in 1955, as A Good Man is Hard to Find. O'Connor's "position with regard to race relations is a difficult and contentious one. Stories like 'The Artificial Nigger' and 'Everything that Rises Must Converge', which deal explicitly with race, can seem to moralize against racism while themselves rehearsing racist portrayals of African-Americans. But as Alice Walker has observed, O'Connor's general tendency in her stories is to refuse attempts at rendering African-Americans at all: 'she leaves them free, in the reader's imagination, to inhabit another landscape, another life, than the one she creates for them. This is a kind of grace many writers do not have'." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.