8vo, indigo cloth over tan paper boards, gilt titles, 162pp. First edition. Review copy with tipped in publisher’s slip. Unclipped dust jacket (15.95) moderately toned and rubbed to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The second posthumously published novel by the author of A Confederacy of Dunces, a piece of juvenilia originally written in high school. Southern gothic novel inspired by Flannery O’Connor. A nearly fine copy in mylar.