Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1949.
Price: $225.00
Hardcover. First edition. Edited by Herschel Brickell. Pages lightly age-toned, surface abrasion on spine head, else near fine in a very good age-toned dust jacket with spine sunned small chips and tears along the extremities. The winning story for this year was "A Courtship"by William Faulkner. Other contributors include J.D. Salinger ("Just Before the War with the Eskimos"), Shirley Jackson, Paul Bowles, Evan S. Connell, Jr., Hortense Calisher, Jessamyn West, Jean Stafford, Mary Lavin and others. In the short Salinger biographical piece it mentions that he is considering writing a novel but will abandon it if he is spreading himself too thin.
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