SIGNED/INSCRIBED! NY: Doubleday, 1972. Stated 1st edition. Hardcover 8vo. 180 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Green on front endpaper. Near very good in a good dust jacket and a 2nd different jacket is folded and laid in, no info on 2nd jacket but has a b/w pictorial front panel. Slight spine slant. Front and rear endpapers are toned. Light stain on top edge of textblock. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st jacket is edgeworn and soiled, glued to the reverse of its flaps are 2 different reviews of book from the NY Times. 2nd jacket is folded at spine. Laid in are a Xerox copy of a review from Publishers Weekly and a Xerox copy of Green's Obituary. (literature, fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

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Title: The Dead of the House
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 1972
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0385025572
ISBN 13: 9780385025577
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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A teenage girl’s coming-of-age in the Midwest in the 1940s about which Tillie Olsen wrote, “Wondrous, a true American classic . . . the timeless magic which is art.”

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The Dead of the House was the first and only novel to be published by the late Hannah Green. Originally issued in 1972, it won lavish praise from critics and readers alike. Yet the novel, which took the author almost 20 years to write, went out of print for almost another two decades, until it was reissued in 1996. Today its virtues are no less evident. Green's lyricism transforms the fairly mundane fabric of her childhood--spent in Ohio and on the Lake Michigan shore--into exquisite, elaborately-worked prose.

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