Time Will Darken It

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. Very Good/Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [10],302pp. Dust jacket rather chipped, wrinkled, and worn with a number of small closed tears and a large loss to upper panel affecting text and illustration; overall a Very Good example in a Good only jacket.

Fourth novel by William Maxwell, the long-time fiction editor at the New Yorker who left his thumbprint on the literary output of J.D. Salinger, Mavis Gallant, John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, Shirley Hazzard and countless others.