Description
First edition of Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor, in the publisher’s scarce dust jacket.
Octavo, 232pp. Yellow cloth, title in gray on spine. Stated “First Edition” on copyright page. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $3.00 retail price on front flap, touch of wear to corners. Limited professional restoration to verso with archival tissue paper, reinforcing a few small holes and closed tears. A scarce copy of this author’s first novel in its original dust jacket. (Burgess, 99)
A scarce copy of this author’s first novel in its original dust jacket.
Wise Blood (1952) is the first novel by Flannery O’Connor, published by Harcourt, Brace, and Company, and remains one of the central works of postwar Southern fiction. O’Connor later revised the novel, and it was reissued in an expanded edition in 1962 with a new introduction by the author.
