The Gentle Insurrection and Other Stories [Signed]
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- SIGNED
- New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth, green topstain, in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [8],274pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few small chips and closed tears not approaching text, topstain a bit sunned and corners nudged, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy. Signed by the author on half title page.
The North Carolina author's first book, a collection of short stories published when Betts was just twenty-two years old. The work garnered her immediate acclaim both local and critical--the rear jacket blurbs include praise from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Pearl S. Buck, and the book was awarded the UNC Putnam Book Prize. Her most famous short story collection, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (1973), was nominated for the National Book Award.
The North Carolina author's first book, a collection of short stories published when Betts was just twenty-two years old. The work garnered her immediate acclaim both local and critical--the rear jacket blurbs include praise from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Pearl S. Buck, and the book was awarded the UNC Putnam Book Prize. Her most famous short story collection, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (1973), was nominated for the National Book Award.