THE WORLD NEXT DOOR. New York: Farrar Straus and Company, 1949. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first novel, "based on actual experience" according to the publisher, set in a mental hospital for veterans. The book was well received by advance readers: Alfred Kazin called it "a very honest and moving study in the loneliest of all human disasters," Jean Stafford found it to be "a wonderfully readable book," and Eudora Welty wrote "it has the value of an honest and complete and new study of experience, brilliantly set down ... a thrilling piece of work." Young 3021. Early owner's signature on the front paste-down. Some tanning to endpapers, else a fine copy in very good dust jacket with light wear at edges and some fade to spine panel. (#164730).
Price: $100.00
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