Mary Lee Settle

Fight Night on a Sweet Saturday [Signed]

New York: The Viking Press, 1964. Very Good / Very Good. Item #47815

New York: The Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (21.8cm); original dust jacket with $4.50 price intact; boards in black cloth with red and white lettering to spine; [vi],217pp. Jacket edgeworn with shallow chips at corners and spine ends, some scuffs and toning to surface, and a couple small waterspots and fading to spine; toning to verso. Boards nudged at spine ends. Prior owner's name in pen and remnant of old bookstore price stamp at top of front free endpaper, else interior unmarked. Binding sound.

Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Initial conclusion to an intended trilogy begun with O Beulah Land (1956) and Know Nothing (1960) -- later expanding to The Beulah Quintet -- but punted from the series and replaced by 1982's The Killing Ground. Settle wrote in a 1997 Washington Post article how Viking insisted on threat of canceling the book and payment that she remove a vital opening section about a coal strike, succumbing to which Settle describes as "the worst mistake of my writing career" and "a total disaster," yielding the worst reviews she ever received.

Price: $100.00