Jean Stafford

Children are Bored on Sundays

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. 8vo, turquoise quarter cloth over yellow pinstripe boards, black titles, 252pp. Stated First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.00) with edge wear to panels, quarter loss to spine crown and short closed tear to front panel. Toning to endpapers, crease to edges last twenty or so pages. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. First edition of Stafford’s first published collection of short stories, gathered from previous appearances in the New Yorker. Includes the famous story ‘The Interior Castle’. A very good copy in mylar.

Price: $25.00