First, The Fields

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in pale yellow at spine and front cover; dustjacket; 308pp. Top edge slightly dusty, else a tight, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), lightly edgeworn, with more pronounced wear along spine ends and some shallow loss to upper left corner of rear panel; Very Good+. The author's first novel, chronicling the life of a North Carolina tobacco farmer and his relationship with the land. In the dustjacket with attractive wraparound artwork by John Alan Maxwell. HANNA 3882.