Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
First edition, first printing of O'Connor's masterful debut, appearing on The Guardian's list of the top 100 novels of all time. Larry McMurtry's copy with his personal bookplate affixed to the front endpaper.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. Publisher's original yellow buckram, spine lettered in brown; pp. 232. An about very good copy in a good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding sturdy, minimal wear to boards with a light dampstain to the lower portion of boards. Light crease to the first handful of pages, else internally clean and fine. Jacket shows some general shelfwear with chipping near the spine crown, small spot to back panel, dampstaining with waviness to the front panel, very small and faint erased notation to front flap. Protected in archival mylar.