The Folded Leaf
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1945.
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Hardcover. First edition. Very near fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with a tiny nick at the foot, and a couple of small tears. The author's third book, a cheaply produced wartime novel. This copy Inscribed: "June, 1979. Douglas Martin from William Maxwell. 'Mother this is Lymie Peters,' Spud said. p.73."
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William Maxwell
birth name: William Keepers Jr. Maxwell
born: 8/16/1908
died: 7/31/2000
Biography
American author of spare, evocative short stories and novels about small-town life in the American Midwest. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore