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  • 1. A Good Man is Hard to Find

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. A trifle rubbed at the bottom of the spine as always, still easily fine in a slightly rubbed very near fine dust jacket with almost none of the usual spine fading. Advance Review Copy with publisher's printed slip tipped to the front fly, with a pencil name (presumably of a potential reviewer) written on the top of the slip. The author's masterpiece, her second book and first book of short stories. A breathtaking collection of horror tales that probe ... See More Details

    1955, Harcourt, Brace & Company

    Hardcover, Fine/Like New

    Advance Reading Copy

    Between the Covers-Rare Books

    BEST

    Gloucester City, NJ, USA

    $7,500.00

  • 2. The Violent Bear It Away

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: A near fine copy in a good to very good jacket with a number of tape reinforcements to verso. 243 pp. 8vo, Signed by O'Connor on the half-title page, and with her ms. correction on p. 242. On January 28, 1960, soon after she had received the book, Flannery O'Connor wrote to Cecil Dawkins that "The worst misprint was actually on the next to the last page. It is supposed to be 'he heard the command, ' and they have it, he heard to command, " which doesn't make sense." She also wrote that "The ... See More Details

    1960, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy

    publisher's cloth-backed red boards in dust jacket., Very Good

    Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, ABAA

    HIGH

    Rochester, NY, USA

    $6,500.00

  • 3. Wise Blood

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth. Near Fine with minor wear, in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip at the foot of the spine, trivial edge wear and light soiling. Uncommon in such nice condition. See More Details

    1952, Harcourt, Brace and Company

    Hardcover, Very Good

    Burnside Rare Books

    BEST

    Portland, OR, USA

    $4,000.00

  • 4. Wise Blood

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. About fine in a nice very good or a little better dust jacket with offsetting along the edges of the front panel, and slight toning at the spine. A nice and pleasing copy. The author's first book. *Burgess 99*. See More Details

    1952, Harcourt Brace and Company

    Hardcover, Fine/Like New

    Between the Covers-Rare Books

    BEST

    Gloucester City, NJ, USA

    $3,750.00

  • 5. Wise Blood

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Fine with no dust jacket. First paperback edition. SIGNED by Flannery O'Connor on title page. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. From the library of Kurt Enoch publisher of Signet books and New American Library, who amassed a personal collection of signed or inscribed copies of works by authors he published. An outstanding association on this, the author's FIRST book.; 4 1/2" X 7" See More Details

    1953, Signet Books.

    Softcover, Fine/Like New

    Waverley Books

    AVERAGE

    Santa Monica, CA, USA

    $3,750.00

  • 6. Wise Blood

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. About fine in a bright very good dust jacket with a number of modest chips and tears, and internal evidence of old tape repairs. Housed in a custom quarter leather clamshell case. A presentable copy, with the white jacket whiter than usual. The author's first book. *Burgess 99*. See More Details

    1952, Harcourt Brace and Company

    Hardcover, Fine/Like New

    Between the Covers-Rare Books

    BEST

    Gloucester City, NJ, USA

    $3,500.00

  • 7. The Violent Bear It Away

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. A fine, bright copy in fine crisp and bright dust jacket. Author's third book, and last published in her lifetime. Rarely encountered in this condition. See More Details

    1960, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy

    Hardcover, Fine/Like New

    Between the Covers-Rare Books

    BEST

    Gloucester City, NJ, USA

    $3,000.00

  • 8. The violent bear it away.

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. 243 p.; 21 cm. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1960. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, First Printing. 243 pp. Original red marble-patterned boards, grey cloth backstrip lettered in white. First edition with no statement of printing. Near Fine with faint bowing to boards, faint edge wear, sunning to spine cloth. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with sunned spine panel, small chip at front bottom ... See More Details

    1960, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy

    Hardcover, Very Good

    Bronze Books

    POOR

    Victorville, CA, USA

    $2,995.00

  • 9. Everything That Rises Must Converge

    by Flannery O'Connor

     

    Seller Description: Benny Andrews. Fine in fine dust jacket. Includes illustrations. O Connor s shivery story set in the mid 20th century South that the celebrated artist, Benny Andrews, knew all too well. The two lived only thirty miles from one another, but worlds and worlds apart, in Georgia farm country. Why he chose this book, this author, he will tell you in his brilliant Afterword. The white O Connor flourished within the system. Andrews, a son of black sharecroppers, flourished in spite of it. Imagine. ... See More Details

    2005, Limited Editions Club

    Hardcover, Fine/Like New

    The Limited Editions Club

    not rated

    New York, NY, USA

    $2,950.00

  • 10. Wise Blood

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Clean, tight book with slight discoloration at foot of spine. Dustjacket has been professionally restored including infill at top and bottom of front panel and spine. More than presentable copy of an increasingly scarce book. Cloth 8vo. 232pp. Author's first book. Stated first printing. See More Details

    1952, Harcourt

    Hardback

    12th Street Books, ABAA

    not rated

    Austin, TX, USA

    $2,500.00

  • 11. Wise Blood

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Very Good. First edition. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Small ding to top of back board, a bit of light foxing and light dust-soiling to edges. Jacket has light foxing and rubbing, is chipped a bit at head and tail with a few small creases and nicks, but is unclipped ($3.00) and has an unfaded spine panel. A very nice copy of the Southern author's first book. See More Details

    1952, Harcourt, Brace and Company

    Hardcover, Very Good

    Burnside Rare Books

    BEST

    Portland, OR, USA

    $2,400.00

  • 12. Wise Blood

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Good. No Jacket. Book Yellow cloth boards are lightly soiled from age & handling, well-bound. Pages are clean & sharp throughout. Protected in mylar. See More Details

    1952, Harcourt, Brace & Co

    Hardcover, Good

    Shaker Mill Books

    HIGH

    West Stockbridge, MA, USA

    $1,700.00

  • 13. Wise Blood

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: First edition of O'Connor's powerful first novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. Assembled from disparate stories first published in Mademoiselle, Sewanee Review and Partisan Review, Flannery O'Connor's first ... See More Details

    Harcourt, Brace and Company

    Hardcover, Fine/Like New

    Raptis Rare Books

    BEST

    Palm Beach, FL, USA

    $1,400.00

  • 14. Wise Blood

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1952. 232 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Price-clipped DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped with pieces missing to the top edge of the front panel and a smaller chip present to the rear DJ panel). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. ... See More Details

    1952, Harcourt, Brace

    Hardcover, Very Good

    Last Exit Books

    HIGH

    Charlottesville, VA, USA

    $1,250.00

  • 15. Wise Blood

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: pp. 232. 8vo. Yellow cloth binding. Edgewear, contents clean and unmarked, binding sound; very good. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with a one-inch square chip at the bottom of the spine, and smaller chips at head of spine, age-toning, and a couple of closed tears. The first printing of O'Connor's first novel, which was made into a film by the same name, released in 1979 and directed by John Huston. See More Details

    1952, Harcourt, Brace and Company

    Hardcover, Very Good

    Bison Books

    HIGH

    winnipeg, MB, CANADA

    $1,004.00

  • 16. A Good Man is Hard to Find

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: VG in VG jacket. STATED FIRST EDITION. FIRST STATE BOOK & DJ (TYPO ERROR, PAGE 125, TYRING, WISE BLOOD BLURBS TO REAR PANEL DJ. UNCLIPPED 3.50 (SMALL CHIP TO THE 3), OWNER'S SEAL TO FFEP. FADING TO THE PUB. NAME TO SPINE AREA OF DJ. BOOK TITLE IS UNFADED. See More Details

    1955, HARCOURT, BRACE & CO.

    Hardcover, Very Good

    Gian Luigi Fine Books, Inc.

    HIGH

    Albany, NY, USA

    $895.00

  • 17. Everything That Rises Must Converge

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Some very faint foxing to half-title and verso of the frontispiece; else a fine copy in a fine jacket. 269 pp. 8vo, See More Details

    1965, Farrar Straus and Giroux

    publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket., Very Good

    Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, ABAA

    HIGH

    Rochester, NY, USA

    $850.00

  • 18. Wise Blood

    by Flannery O'Connor

     

    Seller Description: VG-small chip to the head of the spine, light soiling to the baords. 1950s small bookshop sticker on the pastedown. Stated First Edition. 232pp. Yellow cloth. Only the author photo and the folding panels remain of the dust jacket. Binding tight. See More Details

    1952, Harcourt, Brace and Company

    ISBN-13: 9780571241309

    Hardcover, missing Dust Jacket, Good

    Westsider Rare & Used Books In

    AVERAGE

    New York, NY, USA

    $700.00

  • 19. Flannery O'Connor: the Growing Craft: a Synoptic Variorum Edition of: the Geranium, an Exile in the East, Getting Home, Judgement Day (Southern Literary Series)

    by Karl-Heinz Westarp (Editor)

     

    Seller Description: Very good. Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that provides literacy experiences for thousands of readers each year through inspiring programs and creative capitalization of books. See More Details

    1993, Summa Publications

    ISBN-13: 9780917786921

    paperback, Very Good

    Open Books Ltd

    HIGH

    Chicago, IL, USA

    $688.00

  • 20. A Memoir of Mary Ann

    by The Dominican Nuns Of Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Home

     

    Seller Description: Very good. See More Details

    1991, Frederic C Beil

    ISBN-13: 9780913720691

    Hardcover, Very Good

    BookDrop

    HIGH

    Phoenix, AZ, USA

    $666.67

  • 21. Everything That Rises Must Converge

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Fair. See More Details

    1961, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

    Hardcover, Fair

    BookDrop

    HIGH

    Phoenix, AZ, USA

    $666.67

  • 22. Everything That Rises Must Converge

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket with the tiniest tear. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip, photograph of O'Connor, and a publisher's promotional letter laid in. A beautiful copy of this collection of nine short stories, published posthumously. See More Details

    1965, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

    ISBN-13: 9780571116140

    Hardcover, Fine/Like New

    Advance Reading Copy

    Between the Covers-Rare Books

    BEST

    Gloucester City, NJ, USA

    $650.00

  • 23. The Violent Bear It Away

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: NF/VG. AUTHOR'S THIRD BOOK/"FIRST EDITION" NOT STATED ON THE COPYRIGHT PAGE AS IS THE CASE WITH THIS TITLE. D.J. HAS A SMALL BIT OF WEAR AT THE CORNERS WITH WEAR, SHORT TEARS, AND SHALLOW SURFACE CHIPS AT THE SPINE TOP, A ONE INCH TEAR AT THE TOP OF THE FRONT PANEL NEAR THE SPINE, AND SOME MODEST TANNING OF THE WHITE AREAS OF THE DJ. A NICE COPY. See More Details

    1960, FARRAR, STRAUS, AND CUDAHY

    Hardcover, Very Good

    JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS

    HIGH

    BURLINGTON, WI, USA

    $650.00

  • 24. Wise Blood

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Acceptable. NY: Harcourt Brace 1952. Stated 1st edition. Hardcover 8vo 232 pgs. Fair book in only a partial (front panel and flaps) poor dust jacket. Yellow cloth. Spine slant. Covers edgeworn. Brownish red stains to covers. Small tear and creases to bottom edge of pg 225-228. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket front panel is missing a 3 by 4 inch triangular piece at top. Half the jacket spine is missing as is the rear panel. Front panel has brownish red stains. (Veterans, Tennessee, ... See More Details

    Hardcover, Fair

    Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB

    BEST

    Frederick, MD, USA

    $627.24

  • 25. The Habit of Being

    by O'Connor, Flannery

     

    Seller Description: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Edited and with an introduction by Sally Fitzgerald. Fine in wrappers. A nice copy of this splendid collection of letters. Scarce. See More Details

    1978, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    Softcover, Fine/Like New

    Advance Reading Copy

    Between the Covers-Rare Books

    BEST

    Gloucester City, NJ, USA

    $550.00