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NY: Random House; (1979). First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First trade edition, near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. Small owner's name and date on front endpaper. The jacket spine has very light sunning, with a tiny bit of wear at spine ends. Co-winner of the 1980 National Book award (with Garp), and basis for the Oscar winning film. $12.95 price on jacket flap; a tight, square copy.

First edition. Very good in a very good dustjacket. Some shelf-rubbing, one of the books has ink writing inside. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Random House. Fine+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394461096 . Book Very Fine. Square, tight and clean. NO notes, names or ANY markings. DJ with gentle use, SLIGHT nick REAR and at spine head else FINE, not clipped ($12.95) ; Thick 8vo; 515 pages; Not price clipped (12.95). .

Dark red cloth w. gilt & silver lettering. dj. Bookplate ffep. 515pp. FIRST TRADE EDITION.

New York: Random House, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine. First trade edition. Owner name on front fly, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, near fine lacking the dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award, Meryl Streep won an Oscar for her portrayal of the title character in the 1982 film directed by Alan J. Pakula, and that also featured Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol. *Burgess 99.*.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Dust jacket has some sunning to the spine and a little edge wear. Dust jacket protected by removable Brodart cover..

Random House. Collectible - Very Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Very Good. Very Good dust jacket.

New York: Random House, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Boards, Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Fading Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A Novel. ALSO KNOWN AS: Portions of this book previously appeared in Esquire. MOVIE TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for the 1982 feature film of the same name. SYNOPSIS: Sophie's Choice unfolds a story as absorbing and effective and memorable as any work of fiction in our time. It is written at full tilt, and the mastery of its style and the power of its narrative never falter. Stingo came to Brooklyn by way of Virginia and the Marine Corps - with a brief sojourn as a manuscript reader at McGraw-Hill. He settled in Yetta Zimmerman's pink-painted rooming house, where the rent was cheap enough for a young man with only a few hundred dollars to devote himself to the novel he wanted to write. Sophie and Nathan lived upstairs, as he agonizingly discovered when their rocking bed threatened to collapse the ceiling. Thus began a strange relationship: Sophie, the Polish Catholic girl whose wrist bore the grim stamp of a concentration camp . . . Nathan, her lover, the charismatic Jewish intellectual . . . and the narrator Stingo, the sex-starved "South'n" boy who was instantly captivated by Sophie's vulnerable blond beauty. As Stingo struggles with his book - and tries desperately to cope with his growing but unrequited love for the woman upstairs - he also becomes Sophie's confidant, irresistibly absorbed in the harrowing story she tells of Nathan's obsessive jealousy and her own unshakable devotion to him. And as Nathan and Sophie's quarrels intensify, and Stingo is drawn even more into her life, she is compelled, bit by bit, to confront her past - a past strewn with death that she alone survived. In Sophie's Choice, William Styron gives us a love story so hauntingly evocative that it, and its heroine, will become an indelible part of the reader's imagination and our literature. William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia. He served almost three years in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, and after the war, returned to complete his studies at Duke University. Lie Down in Darkness, William Styron's first novel, appeared in 1951. For that initial work, he was awarded the Prix de Rome of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Two years later his short novel The Long March was published, followed by Set This House on Fire (1960), The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), which received the Pulitzer Prize for 1967, and a play, In the Clap Shack (1973).. First Edition 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

515 pp.

A really nice copy, the jacket spine MAY be minutely sunned.