Set This House on Fire

Styron, William

Published by Random House, New York, 1960

About this Item

[1960]. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full black cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt, red, and gray; the front panel in gilt. Octavo. Red topstain. 507pps. Stated First Printing. A previous owner's name is neatly penned on the ffep., otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no apparent reading wear. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has moderate chipping at the spine-ends as well as modest rubbing wear at the tips and along the folds; the original price (5.95) is intact. A nice copy of the author's third novel. ".On his way back to the States, Peter Leverett stopped in Italy to see his old schoolmate Mason Flagg in the little coastal town of Sambuco. The following morning Mason was found dead at the base of a cliff. The hours leading up to Mason's death were a nightmare to Peter, not only in their violence but in their maddening unreality and mystery. Peter later realized that he had been witness to a blaze of events which were ignited by a tragic conflict between two men: one was Flagg himself; the other was Cass Kinsolving, a tortured, self-destructive American painter who had settled in Sambuco after an alcoholic flight across most of Europe. Mason, leading a hectic, pretentious, Don Juan life, found Cass his natural enemy and prey. Out of the enslavement, the agony, the degradation of their relationship came the salvation of one man and the destruction of the other." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Set This House on Fire
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1960
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature & Fiction, U.S.A.