Forty Whacks

by Fanny Howe

$650 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. First edition, first printing of the author's first novel written under her real name. x , 195 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth-affect with spine stamped in gilt and multi-color; top edge stained blue. Fine with trivial wear at spine ends and corners in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine, slight rubbing at extremities and small closed tears to edges;

• Printing: first

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