Prize Stories of 1950: The O. Henry Awards
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1950.
Price: $400.00
Hardcover. First edition. Edited by Herschel Brickell. Copious erasable pencil notes in the Introduction, else near fine in a very good modestly rubbed dust jacket with small chips and tears along the extremities. The winning story for this year was "The Blue-Ringed Teal" by Wallace Stegner. Other contributors include J.D. Salinger ("For Esme - With Love and Squalor"), Nelson Algren, Kay Boyle, John Cheever, Peter Taylor and others. In the short Salinger biographical piece it mentions that he is considering writing a novel. Very scarce,
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