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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. The author's first book, a provocative story of class struggle, privilege, and poverty. Born in Covina, California, Stafford (1915-79) is best known for her novel The Mountain Lion (1947) as well as the short stories for which she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1970.… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, PA: The Blakiston Company, 1944. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Some shelf wear on top edges and spine of DJ, very good first edition, stated, in blue cloth boards. 496 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. Hardcover. Good. Fourth printing. Soiling on the boards, a sound good only copy without dustwrapper. Bookplate of poet Eleanor Ross Taylor. Taylor's husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor was college roommates with Stafford's husband, the poet Robert Lowell. Stafford's first book.

UNKNOWN PUBLISHER. Hardcover. USED Fair.

Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1944. Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Rear pastedown partially removed around the edges, pages age-toned, extremities worn, good only lacking the dust jacket. Lovingly Inscribed on the front fly from fellow author Daniel Hoffman to his wife. Stafford's first book.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. A Good copy in blue cloth, in a price-clipped Good dust jacket with a chip at the spine. Bookplate inside the front cover. Tanning and tape shadows to the endpapers, and an edge-chip to the front flap (all from the taping of a dust jacket protector).… Read more about this item

NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1944. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 496. VG. The author's first book.

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company [1944]., 1944. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Dust jacket (unclipped; small chips; old repairs to verso). Very good. Rubberstamp of Selma & Dan Brenner on the front pastedown. Author’s first book.. F. Hardcover.

Dell X2, 1960. 2nd. VG -. Ruffins, Reynold. paperback / Cover crease / Cover by Reynold Ruffins

Philadelphia, PA: The Blakiston Co, 1944. BOMC/Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Book Club Edition. Text/NF, strong & Near New. Navy board w/gilt spine lettering/NF w/trace rubs to corner tips & upper/lower spine edges. DJ/Good; intact w/nips, chips, rubs, closed tears to edges & losses to upper/lower spine. Dyed upper text edge. Wartime publication; dust jacket… Read more about this item

Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1944-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. ***please read*** no marks on text - very small sticker on inside cover page - no Dj - my shelf location 10-A-14*

The Sun Dial Press, 1946 Bright blue cloth boards, inscribed on the first blank page by John Knaide, also has a note folded up but not the authors. Blue cloth boards in very good condition. ; Signed by Author.

Usa: The Sun Dial Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 390 pages .

Paperback. Good.

Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1944. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Cloth. Shelf wear. Pen notations on first page. This is an early reprint of Stafford's first book.

Harcourt Brace and Company, 1944. Book. Fine Plus. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine plus copy in a fine jacket.Author's First Book.Excellent copy..

New York: Harcourt, Brace & co, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good blue cloth hardcover, small staining to rear cover. First Edition, produced during war time "A War Time Book CIA

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Fine. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Advance Proof of the Author's First Book. The author's first book written while married to Robert Lowell. A sad story dealing with a girl's subjugation by her father and subsequently by her husband.

NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1944. First. Offered is a copy of the advance proof of Stafford's first book, very good in printed wrappers ALONG WITH a first edition, tight, fine copy (bookplate front pastedown) in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with very shallow chipping to the head of the spine.

Paperback. Very Good.