O’CONNOR, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Other Stories. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1955].
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O’CONNOR, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Other Stories. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1955].
8vo. Original black cloth (minor rubbing to extremities); dust jacket (spine panel faded as usual with minor wear at ends, a few tiny nicks or chips). Provenance: “Walsh” (owner’s ink stamp on front pastedown); Barry Moser (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with “tyring” for “trying” on page 125.
[With:]
O’CONNOR, Flannery. The Violent Bear It Away. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1960]. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Accompanied by a copy of Sarah Gordon’s Flannery O’Connor. The Obedient Imagination. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, [2000]. 8vo, original cloth; dust jacket. Provenance: Rome-Floyd County Library (bookplate and library label on spine panel); Barry Moser (signed bookplate).
Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser
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