8vo, black half paper over half blue grey paper boards, white and orange titles, 335pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.95) moderately toned and creased to panels. Ex-library copy with stamping and signatures to endpapers, tape residue marks to board edges, tape residue marks to flaps of dust jacket, slight lean to boards.. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The third published novel by the Mississippi writer, a story of racial tensions in a small Southern town. Candidate for the Pulitzer Prize in 1956. A good copy in mylar, relatively scarce.