First, the Fields [Inscribed & Signed]

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in pale yellow at spine and front cover; dustjacket; 308pp. Jacket extremities rubbed with some shallow chipping, spine darkened, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper and signed on title page. The author's first novel, chronicling the life of a North Carolina tobacco farmer and his relationship with the land. In the dustjacket with attractive wraparound artwork by John Alan Maxwell. HANNA 3882.