A Sad Heart at the Super Market; Essays and Fables

New York: Atheneum, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.50), rubbed at the edges, tape on the flaps. Blue-grey buckram, some rubbing, with gilt lettering on the spine. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean, red top stain, inscription on the front endpaper and title page, clean otherwise. A collection of Jarrell's essays and fables that "balances his ironic and devastating observations on the decline of taste, learning and culture in the United States.