RAINTREE COUNTY . . . WHICH HAD NO BOUNDARIES IN TIME AND SPACE, WHERE LURKED MUSICAL AND STRANGE NAMES AND MYTHICAL AND LOST PEOPLES, AND WHICH WAS ITSELF ONLY A NAME MUSICAL AND STRANGE.. This item is unavailable.
Published by Boston and Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company - The Riverside Press, 1948.
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
AbeBooks seller since March 23, 1998
Condition: Used
£ 135.43
Item description from seller
Early reprint (per date specified on copyright page only) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xvi, 1066 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket remnants in book; trimmed front flap once glued to front free endpaper verso but now just laid-in with associated browning caused by glue residue; trimmed dj rear flap glued to rear flyleaf verso and trimmed dj rear panel glued to rear free endpaper verso both with toned glue outlines to respective rectos; dj spine and front panel not present. Beige cloth, brown spotting to boards particularly along joints, toning and light spotting to spine cloth. Some toning and light soiling to edges; pencil ownership inscription at bottom of front free endpaper recto; light toning to pages 16-17 from laid-in newspaper clipping regarding author from a January 16, 1948 issue of the Indianapolis News. Author's ink signature "Ross Lockridge, Jr." at top margin of front free endpaper recto; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good- copy. RAINTREE COUNTY was the sole novel authored by Ross F. Lockridge, Jr. (April 25, 1914-March 6, 1948) who, suffering from severe depression and exhaustion, tragically committed suicide just two months after the book's publication on January 5, 1948. Lockridge's epic was announced as the nation's top bestselling novel by The New York Times on Sunday March 7, 1948 just one the day after his death The cinematic adaptation of RAINTREE COUNTRY starred Montgomery Clift in the role of John Wickliff Shawnessy and Elizabeth Taylor as Susanna Drake. At the time of its 1957 release, the movie was the most expensive ever made. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. {LitShelf#5|CVA-00453}. …
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- Title
- RAINTREE COUNTY . . . WHICH HAD NO BOUNDARIES IN TIME AND SPACE, WHERE LURKED MUSICAL AND STRANGE NAMES AND MYTHICAL AND LOST PEOPLES, AND WHICH WAS ITSELF ONLY A NAME MUSICAL AND STRANGE.
- Author
- Lockridge, Ross, Jr. [Ross Franklin Lockridge, Jr.], 1914-1948.
- Publisher
- Boston and Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company - The Riverside Press, 1948.
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- Hardcover
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