Memoirs of Hecate County

Garden City: Doubleday, 1946, 1946. First edition. Fine copy in a fine (slightly darkened at the edges and spine) dust jacket.. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt decorations and lettering. Frontis. ¶ Edmund Wilson's second work of fiction published in book form, a series of stories about the imaginary Hecate County in Upstate, New York, that begins with the memorable story of Asa M. Stryker, the narrator's neighbor who shot snapping turtles. (Inventory #: 24763)