Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
O'CONNOR, FLANNERY. The Violent Bear it Away. 8vo, grey cloth over red boards lettered in white and grey, fading to spine, top edges stained blue; dust jacket, spine panel sunned and with a chip at head with loss of a few letters, short closed tear on rear panel; editorial blue pen correction in unknown hand on p. 242 ("to" crossed out and "the" indicated in margin). New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, (1960)

Additional Details

first edition, bearing presentation inscription in the year of publication on half-title, "For George [Haslam] / From Flannery / Milledgeville / Jan. 1960." Scarce signed title of O'Connor's second, and final, novel, with an excellent association.