Quincie Bolliver

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); taupe cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; lavender topstain; dustjacket; [vi],[1]-425,[1]pp. Some foxing and dust-soil along the right edge of the rear pastedown, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), showing light wear to extremities, a small tear at upper spine panel, and some corresponding foxing and dust-soil along the rear flap fold on verso; Very Good+. Debut novel by a Texas author, centered around a lonesome girl growing into womanhood in the Texas oil fields, among the roughnecks and derricks. COAN, p.75. 87158.