Description
The first edition, first printing of Blood for a Stranger by Randall Jarrell, the author’s first book.
Octavo, x, 82pp, [2]. Publisher’s red cloth, title stamped in blue on the spine. Stated “first edition” on the copyright page. Internally clean, solid text block. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $2.00 retail price on the front flap, a few chips at the spine, a very good example.
(Wright, A1)
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in New York in 1942, this was Jarrell’s first book, issued in a reported edition of 1,700 copies.
