Evidence of Love

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

Price: $5,000.00

Hardcover. First edition, original setting typescript with numerous manuscript changes and corrections in both the author's and editor's hands. Fine, clean and unstained (though heavily marked-up) sheets laid in a custom cloth clamshell case with a gilt-stamped leather title label. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's fifth novel, expanded from her short story "The Patriarch." The preliminary sheets are filled with handwritten style and typographical notations; most pages of the novel itself bear handwritten textual changes including spelling corrections, altered phraseology, and the occasional deletion or reworking of entire paragraphs.

Item #68511
ISBN: 0394411153

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Item #68511 Evidence of Love. Shirley Ann GRAU.

Shirley Ann Grau
birth name: Shirley Ann Grau
born: 7/8/1929

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Biography

American novelist and short-story writer noted for her examinations of evil and isolation among American Southerners. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

Shirley Ann Grau has never really been a hot ticket with collectors, although fine copies of her Pulitzer-winning novel The Keepers of the House (1964) are rapidly dwindling away, and where scarcity goes, price tends to follow. Her first book The Black Prince and Other Stories (1955) is also uncommon in nice condition, but not that many people seem to care.

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