May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 1

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
AGEE, JAMES. A Death in the Family. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, thin fade to board extremities; unclipped dust jacket, light rubbing to spine panel ends, 1-inch closed tear in spine panel into letter "A" of title; contents clean. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957)

Additional Details

first edition, first issue, with title-page printed in blue and the first word on page 80 as "walking" rather than "waking." A handsome copy of Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.