8vo, quarter blue cloth over green paper boards, silver and gilt decorative titles, red top stain, 237pp. First printing. Unclipped dust jacket (6.95) moderately toned to panels. Ownership signature, toning to front endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. ‘Occasional prose selected and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald.’ Collected essays and short pieces by the Georgia novelist and story writer on a host of topics: the southern writer, Catholicism and literature, the gothic and the grotesque, et al. Includes the celebrated ‘King of the Birds’, an essay on the raising of peacocks at her Andalusia Farm home, and ‘Introduction to a Memoir of Mary Ann’, an elegy for a young orphan girl written upon commission from Dominican religious sisters. Dust jacket design by Guy Fleming, with color photograph of Miss O’Connor’s peacock to front panel. Author photograph at rear panel by Joe McTyre. A nearly fine copy in mylar.