THE FRIENDLY PERSUASION

by Jessamyn West

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945 . Octavo, publisher's gray cloth stamped in green. First edition. The author's first book, a classic novel set in the American Midwest Indiana in the nineteenth century . Basis for a fine William Wyler film starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire and Anthony Perkins. Neat owner's name on the front free endpaper. Mild rub mark to rear cover, a clean, attractive, very good or better

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