Ship Ride Down the Spring Branch and Other Stories

Durham: Moore Publishing Co, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto: 199 pp. Inscribed and Signed by the author in neat ink on the half-title page: "To Dr. Peter Taylor, My gratitude for your tireless help to struggling writers, and for your devotion to excellence in short story writing, Jess Carr, 1/79." Very good with the boards very slightly splayed, else near fine, in a near fine dustwrapper with light rubbing to the back panel. Peter Taylor was one of America's best short story writers, and winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1985 PEN/Faulkner Award.