This Crooked Way

Remembered for adaptations of her novella "Light in the Piazza", Spencer wrote for over seven decades and was jury-selected for the Pulitzer for her fiction depicting family, racial and class animosities in the Deep South. This Crooked Way is an atmospheric novel set in Mississippi Delta and surrounding hill country, using Spencer's knowledge from growing up in a tiny racially… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Blue cloth. Library stamp on front fly, pages slightly age-toned with fraying at the bottom cover corner, very good in a very good dust jacket with creases and a couple tears on the cover, and splitting along the front flap fold. Story set in the deep South--the… Read more about this item

Dodd, 1952. First Edition. First Printing. Very good+ in Like DJ. Inscribed to Ella with "Pas Christian, Miss. March 3, 1952.

[NY]: Dodd, Mead, 1952. Second printing. 8vo, pp. 247. A very good copy without dj. Inscribed by the author to poet William Jay Smith and his his first wife, poet Barbara Howes: "For Barbara and William | Smith | With best wishes. | Elizabeth Spencer | New York | "The Bristol" | May 31, 1952" Also signed on the… Read more about this item

Louisiana State University Press, 2000-06. Paperback. Very Good. Very good paperback copy. Shelfwear is very minor. Spine is uncreased, binding and text also in very good condition.

Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1952. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. The first edition of this thrilling novel about a power hungry and cruel man's rise to power, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the original very scarce unclipped dust wrapper. A scarce work. This… Read more about this item

University Press of Mississippi, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Paperback / softback. New. Elizabeth Spencer presents a vital, moving story set in the deep South -the Delta and Mississippi hill country. Amos Dudley was a farm boy in the Delta country at the turn of the century until he started working for his brother Ephraim in the store by the railroad. It was an ordinary enough environment… Read more about this item

Univ Pr of Mississippi, 2012. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 247 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.