Rambling Rose

New York: Delacorte, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Fuchsia cloth hardcover; dustjacket; pink publisher's top-stain, 309pp. Minuscule scuff at base of rear board, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.95 on front flap), lightly rubbed at spine-folds and extremities, VG+.

Quite nice copy of the Atlanta-born author's 1972 semi-autobiographical coming of age novel, set in his native Georgia during the Great Depression. Willingham himself adapted the screenplay for the 1991 feature film, directed by Martha Coolidge and starring Laura Dern and Robert Duvall. A best-seller in paperback, the cloth issue is considerably less common.