A DEATH IN THE FAMILY

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957. First printing. Very good in very good jacket.. First printing and issue of Agee's autobiographical novel set in Tennessee, left unfinished at the time of his death in 1955, winner of a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. 8'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth stamped in metallic green and silver. Cream endpapers. Pale blue topstain. In original price-clipped dust jacket designed by SKA. Title page printed in blue; "walking" (for "waking") printed on page 80. 339, [3] pages. Jacket moderately edgeworn. Some toning, soil. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper, mild shelfwear to extremities. Overall, sound.