8vo, blue cloth, green titles, blue topstain, 313pp. First edition. Inscribed by Dowell to the half title page. Unclipped dust jacket (5.95) with moderate wear to edges, toning to panels. Two ownership signatures and toning to front endpapers, light fading to cloth. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The first published novel by the Kentucky native novelist, Subtitled ‘A novel about family love and hate’, a tapestry of a rural American family after the death of their patriarch. A very good copy in mylar.