Story: The Fiction of the Forties

by Burnett, Whit & Hallie

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · In dust jacket

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1949. Short story anthology, with stories by J. D. Salinger, Truman Capote, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Norman Mailer, Frederic Prokosch, Jesse Stuart, Erskine Caldwell, Liam O Flaherty, many others - several are the author s first published stories, reprinted from Story magazine. Scarce in the jacket, which is an early plastic with a paper front flap. Light wear to book, minor bumping to corners spine ends; jacket has a short split mended with nonarchival tape at the lower rear flap. Text clean, no names or marks; xviii, 620 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

• Publisher: E. P. Dutton
• Year: 1949
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: Hardcover

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