BROMFIELD, Louis

Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady

First edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine advance issue dustwrapper, with some irregular tanning to the spine. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip tipped-in, noting the date of publication as October 14, and with an Autograph Note Signed by the author lightly tipped to the front fly: "For William Langenfeld -- In gratitude and good friendship from the author who has not yet (strange as it may seem) forgotten the article he promised. Louis Bromfield." On the verso, the author has written "Philadelphia Ledger." Presumably Langenfeld was an editor to whom this review copy was addressed. The advance issue of the dustwrapper, which we have never seen elsewhere, differs from the final dustwrapper only by the absence of a small blurb on the bottom of the front panel of the latter which states "This Novel has never been published in any Periodical." A very nice copy of an early and scarce Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

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