New York: Modern Library, (1940). First Modern Library Edition. 12mo. 5 x 7.125 in. [x], 285 pp. + adverts ML Binding Style 8, vivid green cloth, top edge sumikuro, with Kent endpapers; in pink & black illustrated dust jacket, with 95 cent price & 274 titles advertised on verso. Bookplate to front pastedown & previous ownership signature to front free endpaper, else very near fine in very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Moderate toning to spine panel. Attractive 2006 Katherine Anne Porter stamp affixed to title page. Binding square & tight, text otherwise unmarked & bright.

A nice copy of this Modern Library First, featuring a new introduction by Katherine Anne Porter and including the additional four stories.

Price: $45.00