The Mermaids

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.50), generally toned and soiled, bumped at the edges, a few short tears and shallow chips. Quarter yellow cloth with blue paper on the boards, rubbed at the edges. Firmly bound with a blue topstain, slight forward lean, clean internally. Boros's debut novel, a love story set in a sanitorium, described by Eudora Welty as a "sensitive, haunting work of a quality distinctly its own.