A Pause in the Desert: A Collection of Short Stories

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 235pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 red cloth with yellow cloth over boards. Publisher's red topstain. The spine ends are moderately bumped and rubbed. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with subtle soiling to the panels, and a light amount of rubbing and chipping to the edges. Jacket art by William Barss. Sixteen stories from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Laughing Boy.