Noon Rest, Best Day

(New York): Albondocani Press, (1986).

Price: $150.00

Softcover. First edition. Cover drawing by Robert Dunn. Fine in stapled wrappers with cardboard stiffener and envelope, addressed in Reynolds' hand (showing normal wear). One of 350 copies. Inscribed on the first page to editor and friend Harry Ford and his wife: "& love to K. & Harry / from Reynolds Price. 1986." Harry Ford was an editor at Atheneum, publisher of Reynolds Price's early trade publications. Harry Ford also designed most of the Reynolds Price titles published by Atheneum, and Price dedicated his play "Early Dark" to Harry and Kathleen Ford. A poem issued as a Christmas greeting by the publisher and author, with a nice association.

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Item #500236 Noon Rest, Best Day. Reynolds PRICE.
Noon Rest, Best Day
Noon Rest, Best Day

Reynolds Price
birth name: Edward Reynolds Price
born: 2/1/1933
died: 01/20/2011

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American writer whose stories are set in his home state of North Carolina. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
Eudora Welty, whom he cited as an influence, helped him get his first books published.more

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