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Dorothy Allison – Bastard Out Of Carolina – First US Edition 1992
£175.00
First edition, first printing. Published by Dutton in New York, 1992. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper is bright and mostly clean throughout. It has not been price clipped. The boards, in quarter white cloth and grey paper, are free from notable chips and marks and the titling is bright. The text blocks are bright and white throughout. There is a small previous owners inscription to the half title in black ink, dated to the year of publication. Overall, this is a near fine copy overall.
Semi-autobiographical in nature, the book is set in Allison’s hometown of Greenville, South Carolina in the 1950s. Narrated by Ruth Anne “Bone” Boatwright, the primary conflict occurs between Bone and her mother’s husband, Glen Waddell.
Turned into an Emmy award winning film in 1996.
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First edition, first printing. Published by Dutton in New York, 1992. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper is bright and mostly clean throughout. It has not been price clipped. The boards, in quarter white cloth and grey paper, are free from notable chips and marks and the titling is bright. The text blocks are bright and white throughout. There is a small previous owners inscription to the half title in black ink, dated to the year of publication. Overall, this is a near fine copy overall.
Semi-autobiographical in nature, the book is set in Allison’s hometown of Greenville, South Carolina in the 1950s. Narrated by Ruth Anne “Bone” Boatwright, the primary conflict occurs between Bone and her mother’s husband, Glen Waddell.
Turned into an Emmy award winning film in 1996.
