If Morning Ever Comes

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.

Price: $650.00

Hardcover. Seventh printing. Thin line of sunning at the crown, else near fine in spine-faded, very good or better dustwrapper. Inscribed by Tyler to author Nicholas Delbanco: "For Nick Delbanco with admiration. Anne Tyler." Tyler's first novel. Tyler is a generous but not particularly accessible signer (she eschews book tours and public appearances), and one seldom finds books with significant associative value.

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Item #107512 If Morning Ever Comes. Anne TYLER.
If Morning Ever Comes
If Morning Ever Comes

Anne Tyler
birth name: Anne Tyler
born: 10/25/1941
nationality: USA

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Biography

American novelist and short-story writer whose comedies of manners are marked by compassionate wit and precise details of domestic life. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

First editions of three of Anne Tyler's first four books are scarce and expensive in fine condition: the first, If Morning Ever Comes (1964), the second, The Tin Can Tree (1965), and the fourth, The Clock Winder (1972). Which is the scarcest is the subject of modest debate, with our money on The Clock Winder. For some reason her third book, A Slipping-Down Life (1970) is relatively common when it has a handwritten "R" remainder mark on the front endpaper, but without the mark it too is scarce. One wild card is a little limited edition, A Visit with Eudora Welty (1980) which reprints an interview with Welty that originally appeared in The New York Times Book Review. This was purportedly was issued in an edition of 100 copies, but our experience suggests the real number might be two or three times that number.

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