The Moonflower Vine [Review Copy]

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy with publisher's promotional pamphlet and two sheets of typed, folded instructions for reviewers. Octavo (21.5cm); green cloth spine over light green paper-covered boards, with titling and decoration stamped in gilt and green on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 352pp. Light foxing to upper edge of textblock with faint dust-soil to rear cover, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper, designed by Paul Bacon with photograph by William G. Berkeley, unclipped (priced $4.95), lightly spine-faded, with faint creases to spine ends and extremities, and light foxing to upper front panel and flaps; Very Good+. Carleton's first novel, which is set on a Missouri farm and follows a religious family as their young daughters begin to chase a different way of life. [83866].