THE WORLD NEXT DOOR

by Fritz Peters

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Farrar Straus and Company, 1949. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first novel, based on actual experience according to the publisher, set in a mental hospital for veterans. The book was well received by advance readers: Alfred Kazin called it a very honest and moving study in the loneliest of all human disasters, Jean Stafford found it to be a wonderfully readable book, and Eudora Welty wrote it

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