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Clock Without Hands
by MCCULLERS, Carson
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red cloth, titled in gilt and black on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [x],241,[5]pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, with the pale yellow top-stain even and unfaded. In the notoriously fragile die-cut dustwrapper, price-clipped, lightly rubbed at spine ends, extremities, and with a trace of wear along interior of die-cut opening; Very Good or better. The author's fourth novel, providing "glimpses into the lives of a few village characters around the 1950's" (COAN, p.63). 62832.
Synopsis
Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of change and changelessness, of death and the death-in-life that is hate. It is a tale, as McCullers herself wrote, of "response and responsibility--of man toward his own livingness."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62832
- Title
- Clock Without Hands
- Author
- MCCULLERS, Carson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1961
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Women; The South; Social Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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