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Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Random House 177pp. No indications of edition on copyright page. No price on DJ flap, but date 3/57 appears on front flap. Remains of old price sticker back flap with corresponding off-setting on back free endpaper. Pages a little yellowed. DJ has light wear to spine ends.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Random House, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 177pp. Ghost of pocket removed from back pastedown. School stamp on front pastedown. Blue-grey boards, tan cloth quarter-wrap spine with black and off-white lettering on spine. Boards show faint crayon markings. This four act comedy takes place January 8,1939 - that date being Jackson Day, marked annually by The Tennessee Society of St Louis, which forms the backdrop for this, Taylor's first full-length play. Originally written under the title The Southern Colony, the first act was first published in the Winter 1957 edition of the Kenyon Revue.

New York: Random House, (1957). First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 177p octavo. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket, spine sunned. Supposed variant jacket without price, but in 49 years I haven't seen onen with the price.

New York: Random House, (1957).. (1957).. Very good. - Octavo, light blue paper covered boards backed with gray cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is very lightly bumped with the top edges of the covers slightly faded. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed & soiled with its spine sunned. There is some minor foxing to the edges of the rear panel & folds. Half-title, title, [3] leaves, 177 & [2] pages. Very good. <p>First edition, in the unpriced variant of the dust wrapper.

New York: Random House, (1957). First edition of his first play. In variant dust jacket, as usually seen, without a price and with "3/57" on dust jacket flap. Bright and near fine in very good or better dust jacket with light rubbing and touch of minor wear.

New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light blue paper and beige cloth-covered boards, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in black and white on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; [x],177,[5]pp. Hint of sunning to board edges, with some faint foxing to text edges, and a faint patch of label residue to front endpaper; Near Fine. Dustjacket is the unpriced variant, with the "3/57" date code at lower front flap; lightly edgeworn, gently spine-sunned, with a few tiny tears to extremities, and some faint foxing to flaps and on verso; Very Good+. Taylor's fourth book and first play, which captures a day in the lives of a family of displaced Southerners who celebrate "Tennessee Day" in their adopted St. Louis.

New York: Random House, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Top edge of boards and crown slightly toned, near fine in a near fine (unpriced variant) dust jacket with light sunning and rubbing on the spine. Taylor's first play.

New York: Random House, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Topedge with some sunning near spine, near fine in a lightly spine-sunned very good dust jacket (unpriced variant) with a few small chips and tears and slight edgewear. A play of a group of displaced Southerners who celebrate "Tennessee Day" in their adopted St. Louis surroundings.

New York: Random House. Very Good. [1957]. Hardcover. -; Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Slight darkening at joints and hinges from the binding paste, else very good condition. In unpriced dust jacket (though unclipped) , as noted by Ahearn. ; First edition. .

New York: Random House, 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight rubbing. Taylor's first play.

New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some very light dust soiling and slight fading to the spine.

New York: Random House, 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A fine, bright copy in near fine dust jacket very slightly spine faded and rubbed at crown. Noted dramatic scholar John Gassner's copy with his bookplate on front pastedown and his small,faint library identification number neatly printed at the foot of the spine.

New York: Random House, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Some foxing to the boards and spine, else near fine in rubbed, near fine dustwrapper (unpriced variant). Signed by the author, his first play.

NY: Random House, 1957. First edition. Inscribed by the author "with love and kisses" to Jean Stafford, Pulitzer Prize-winning short story writer. Curiously, Talyor dates the inscription "1955"-two years prior to the publication of this work, and identifies the locale as "city". Taylor's fourth book and first play attends to a family of Southerners celebrating Tennesse Day. Taylor, Stafford, and Robert Lowell were close-Lowell and Taylor attended Kenyon College together and the three formed a close friendship that lasted through Lowell's frequent manic-depressive bouts and Stafford's alcoholism. Bound in quarter beige cloth with blue paper over boards, showing general toning and some bumps at edges, else near fine in a like variant dust jacket with no price indicated and a "3/57" code at lower front flap.