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All the books we auction are unique, rare and scarce. Most are 1st Editions or early copies. We deal with books, ideas and writers of substance. Why pay $30 for a new book with no real value intellectually, spiritually or financially — when you can hold a true literary treasure.

Spartina

by John Casey

1989 ~ 1st Edition, 1st Printing w/ $18.95 on DJ

This book won The National Book Award for Fiction


Knopf, 1989. VG+, minor sunning to board edges, DJ has a tear on top spine, some creases, nicks, scuffed foreedge. Clean, bright and tight. Mapped endpapers. A quality collectible copy!

 

John Casey (born 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American writer and translator. He won the National Book Award in 1989 for his novel Spartina.

Casey went to school at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the University of Iowa. He currently lives with his wife and daughter in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia. Casey has two adult daughters from his first marriage to novelist Jane Barnes, Nell Casey and Maud Casey. Maud Casey is a published author in her own right, with two well-reviewed novels and a collection of short stories to her credit. Nell Casey is the editor of the best-selling essay collection on depression and creativity, including essays by herself and her sister, and editor of a second essay collection by contributors caring for family through illness and death.


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