The Story of a Novel

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Very Good+/Very good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in orange dust jacket retaining original price ($1.50); [8],93pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine panel faded, endpapers toned, brief glue residue to front free endpaper from previously-removed label, else a Very Good, fresh and sound copy.

The novelist's cris-de-coeur describing his experience revising his first novel "Look Homeward, Angel," under the tutelage/iron fist of the editor Maxwell Perkins.