Augustus

New York: The Viking Press, 1972. Good/Very Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. 305 pages. Photographic dust jacket. Green and red boards stamped in copper. Map endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket is creased and worn along edges with a one-inch closed tear along top edge near rear flap. Very shallow chipping at spine ends and some green discoloration to jacket verso. Boards heavily chipped with exposure size of a silver dollar at bottom of spine. Lightly worn and sunned along edges with one additional small nick along top edge. Binding sound. Some faint markings to preliminaries but pages otherwise unmarked.

John Williams' fourth novel and winner of the 1973 National Book Award, sharing the honor with Chimera by John Barth.