Description
The first edition of A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O’Connor, in a vibrant first state dust jacket.
Octavo, 251pp, [5]. Black cloth, title stamped in yellow and pink on the spine. Stated “first edition” on the copyright page, with “tyring” error on page 125. Touch of wear at heel of the spine, internally clean. Small bookseller’s label on the front free endpaper. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $3.50 retail price on the front flap, reviews for “Wise Blood” on the rear panel, “Harcourt, Brace And Company” imprint on rear panel. Faint toning to the spine, touch of wear at the head of the spine. Jacket retains the publisher’s vibrant colors and bright illustrations with light shelf wear, a near fine example.
(Bruccoli & Clark I, 281)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find is Flannery O’Connor’s best-known short story, first published in 1953 in the anthology Modern Writing I, before giving its title to her first short-story collection, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, issued by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1955.
