A Summons to Memphis [Review Copy]
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy with two publisher's typed review slips, promotional photograph of author, and two typed promotional handouts laid in. Octavo (22cm); black cloth spine over beige paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; 209pp. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $15.95), with trivial surface wear, else Near Fine. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (1987), Taylor's novel focuses on a Southern family trying to prevent their father's marriage. [84175].