The Robber Bridegroom

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Welty on the half-title page. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned and with some surface and edge rubbing, small tape reinforcements at the corners. Blue buckram, light shelf wear, with white ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a dark blue top stain, former owner's information whited out on the front endpaper. The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.