THE WILD PALMS
$1,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books
New York: Random House, 1939. First Trade Edition. Contains two long separate stories. The Wild Palms is a study of integrity in love. Old Man is an astonishing account of the Mississippi River flood of 1927 and of an escaped convict's adventures in trying to get back to prison; the tale is a tribute to the essential courage, dignity, and reliability of the Mississippi hillfolk Coan, pp.58-59 . Petersen A19b; Brodsky
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