About this title: "Swamp Water," the first novel by a young native of south Georgia, was an immediate critical and financial success. The setting is the mysterious Okefenokee in southern Georgia--"the Swamp that pulled a man down and never let him go." Movie versions were made in 1941 (by Jean Renoir) and in 1951.
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Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co, Boston
Date Published: 1941
Description: Very Good in Good DJ. First edition. Dust jacket soiled, worn, sticker residue. Cloth worn at extremities. Tilted. DJ flaps taped to boards. Interior clean and tight. 262 pages. read more
Binding: Green cloth
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Date Published: 1941
Description: Octavo. Second printing of first edition. Signed by the author on the front free fly. 264 pages. Spine sunned and worn at tip and base, edges of covers worn with tiny tear on top edge of back cover, lettering faded, small light stains on covers, else a very good copy. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Date Published: 1941
Description: First edition. Corners very slightly bumped, and some offsetting to the front fly from a clipping, thus near fine in very good dustwrapper faded at the spine and with several very small nicks and tears. Nicely Inscribed by the author: "For my friends Frances and Joe Jones with regards, Vereen Bell. Nov 25 '41. " Bestselling first and only novel by the Georgia-born son of that state's Chief Justice. Basis for the 1941 film directed by Jean Renoir, and featuring Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, ... read more
Edition: First edition. 1ST PRINT
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: BANTAM
Date Published: 1947
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. AS PICTURED BANTAM 1947 #97 1ST PRINT-HAS NO CELLO-HAS OLD BK SMELL, NOT BAD-SLIGHT BEND DUE TO STORAGE-COVERS NICE BUT STIFF-PGS CLEAN LIGHT TAN-BINDING TIGHT-LEE2. PGS 182 Originally published, Little 1941. read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1954
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Book Condition: Good-very good. Minor rubbing at edges, minor chipping at spine ends, minor creaseing, but otherwise clean cover. Small stain on upper edge and at page tops. Interior pages slightly darkened near edges but otherwise clean. read more
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