THE PRESENCE OF GRACE

by J. F. Powers

$45 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956. Octavo, 191 pp., cloth. First edition. Second collection of short fiction by a Chicago writer who later won a National Book Award. Nine stories with an ecclesiastical setting. Faint damp marks to cloth, a very good copy in about very good dust jacket with light wear at spine ends and corner tips, internal tape mends to spine ends, and clipped price. Presents well overall.

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