You Can't Go Home Again
by Thomas Wolfe
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No DJ
- Seller
-
Roseburg, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Navy blue cloth hardcover boards. Gilt lettering on red bars on front cover and spine. Margin edge wear, age toned endpapers and loose, but still intact, front hinge joint. Text clean.
First printing first state published posthumously in 1940. Thomas Wolfe's timeless classic that explores the swiftly changing American society of the 1920s and 30s. and the unfair passing time.
Mylar covered.
Synopsis
Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again tells the poignant story of a successful novelist, ostracized by family and friends, who subsequently embarks on a world-wide search for his own identity and personal renewal.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bonnie Lane Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3-06-2023-03
- Title
- You Can't Go Home Again
- Author
- Thomas Wolfe
- Format/Binding
- Intact, see description
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1940, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, London
- Date Published
- 1940
- Pages
- 743
- Size
- 8 1/4" x 5 1/2"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American Novelist, American Culture, Autobiographical Fiction
Terms of Sale
Bonnie Lane Books
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About the Seller
Bonnie Lane Books
Biblio member since 2022
Roseburg, Oregon
About Bonnie Lane Books
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- First State
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- Cloth
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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....