Clock Without Hands

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. First edition. First edition, first printing. [viii], 241 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black and gilt stamping, yellow topstain. Fine in a beautiful, Fine example of the fragile dust jacket, which is all too often found with wear to its die-cut circle or glassine behind that, price intact ($4.00). This copy came from a deceased book scout whose books were kept in storage for decades. Jacket variant with Dame Edith Sitwell quote first on rear flap. The Southern author's final novel. Common enough as a first but scarce in this great of condition. (Inventory #: 140947103)