first edition
1969 · (Paris)
by O'Connor, Flannery
(Paris): Gallimard, 1969. Near fine.. Scarce first French edition, limited issue on handmade paper, of O'Connor's posthumously published collection - one of just 26 copies. The author's second short story collection included three O. Henry Award-winners: "Greenleaf," "Resurrection," and the title story, "Everything That Rises Must Converge" - in the original English, a quotation from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, traded here by translator Henri Morisset for a line spoken by Racine's Phèdre. Scarce. 8.5'' x 5.75''. Original cream wrappers printed in black and red. In original glassine. Uncut and largely unopened. 271, [5] pages. Number 5 of 26 numbered copies. Minor edgewear, wrappers toned at spine and edges.
(Inventory #: 51814)