Description
The signed first edition of Deep South: Memory and Observation by Erskine Caldwell, part one first published in England as In the Shadow of the Steeple.
Octavo, [3], 257pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in white on the spine. Internally clean, solid text block. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $6.50 on the front flap, light shelf wear, small chips along top edge, a very good example.
This copy is signed on the title page by the author.
A nonfiction account of Caldwell’s travels and observations in the American South, with particular attention to southern Protestantism and rural communities during the 1960’s.
