A Long and Happy Life [True First Publication] by Price, Reynolds - 1962

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962. First printing. Wrappers. Near Fine. Berg, Joan. A Near Fine copy of the April 1962 issue of Harper's Magazine (tiny cover chip to each spine end, light touch of soil, minor fold line to the outer bottom corner of the front and of the rear wrapper, underline to a single partial sentence) containing in a Special Supplement therein the TRUE FIRST PUBLICATION, first printing, of Reynolds Price's famed debut novel about which none other than Eudora Welty said: "Reynolds Price is the most impressive new writer I've come across in a long time...here is a fine novel." The novel won the 1963 William Faulkner Foundation Award and has been published in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Italian, German, Polish, Greek, Spanish, Japanese, and Russian. Here we have the first complete appearance of this important work the publication of which Atheneum neglects to mention in the first publication of the novel in book form). Unlike the novel, this Harper's issue contains illustrations. A Near Fine copy of the FIRST PUBLICATION OF REYNOLDS PRICE'S IMPORTANT DEBUT NOVEL, preceding the Atheneum book publication of it later that year. RATHER UNCOMMON.