Violence in Recent Southern Fiction.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with red and white spine lettering, dust jacket. xi, 207pp. Near fine/good plus. Jacket quite edgeworn and rubbed, with several small edge chips and 3" paper loss at head of lightly-sunned spine. Item #40152
Tight and nice first edition of this study of the work of such authors as William Goyen, William Styron, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Shirley Ann Grau and others. Ownership signature on title page of literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir (1923-2013), whose own books include a study of Truman Capote.
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