September September.
First Edition of Shelby Foote's September September; Warmly Inscribed by Him
September September.
FOOTE, Shelby.
Item Number: 45016
New York: Random House, 1977.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Jim Meriwether from his friend Shelby Foote Memphis 5 March 1978.” The recipient James Meriwether was an author, editor and critic, produced 120 works in 312 publications and was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
In September September a magisterial historian of the Civil War charts its distant repercussions in the streets of the contemporary South. By turns wryly comic, ribald, and chilling, Shelby Foote's novel is at once a convincing thriller and a powerful tragicomedy of race. It wasw adapted by Larry McMurtry into a film, starring Cybill Shepherd.
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