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White DJ, mylar covered, edges lightly rubbed. Looks like it is signed by author but one buyer says it is printed on. Autograph section. ; Ex-Library

First edition, first printing stated. Flat signed by the author to the title page. Book is good only, block is lose, cocked spine, jacket shows wear throughout with splitting corners and loss at ends of spine.

64 pages. A short novel, O'Hara's first after winning the 1955 National Book Award for fiction. SIGNED by O'Hara on the title page. Decorative paper-covered boards with red and black lettering on the cloth spine. Binding somewhat loosened, endpapers browned. Dust jacket spine darkened, gutters worn, spine ends chipped. Price ($1.95) intact on front flap.

Backstrip slightly rubbed. Some browning on rear endpapers from the adhesive used under the pastedown. Otherwise, very good condition. No dust jacket. ]. 64p. Jocular eight-line inscription on front free endpaper from O'Hara to Kate Bramwell, a close friend of his first two wives, and the godmother of his daughter. Signed, "Love, John O'Hara, 5 Nov 56"

RARE SIGNED; Signed by Author.

Signed by Author on title page. Stated First Printing. Near Fine with Very Good Dust Jacket. DJ darkened. Price ($1.95) intact. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on front pastedown. Protected in archival plastic cover. Critic Brendan Gill ranked O'Hara as "among the greatest short story writers in English" and credited him with helping to invent what the world came to call The New Yorker short story." ; Signed by Author

RARE SIGNED; Signed by Author.

First American edition. Endpapers foxed, very good in good dustwrapper with some spotting and soiling. Nicely Inscribed by the author: "To Gordon Manning with the warm regard of his friend and associate. John O'Hara. 7 August 1956." Manning was an important executive at both the NBC and CBS news divisions. Presumably a very early inscription, the production code on the jacket indicates that the book was published in August of 1956.

Attractively bound in green and gray lined paper-covered boards with a gray cloth spine stamped brightly in red and black. Clean and tight throughout with gray topstaining. In a very good minus, complete dustjacket with the original price of $1.95 at the top of the inside front flap and the date of "8/56" at the bottom of the flap. Light rubbing and a touch of chipping to the top and bottom of the spine ends at at the corners. The spine is darkened and there is some light soiling to the front panel. "A delightful and heart-warming novelette about small-town American.The story develops from a family party, a testimonial dinner, in honor of Dr. Sam Merritt's first forty years of service to his community, Lyons, PA. This short novel is Mr. O'Hara's first book since he won the 1955 National Book Award for fiction. This copy has been inscribed in black ink and presented: "To Pat Outerbridge who never thought he would end up breaking coal (p. 9) Affectionately John O'Hara 7 August 1956". On p. 9 O'Hara has underlined the name of the mine: "Short Mountain and Outerbridge Colliery" where it appears. Joseph W. ('Pat') Outerbridge of Princeton, NJ was a very close friend and drinking companion of O'Hara who gave him many signed copies of his books over the years. The books are from the collection of Pat Outerbridge's surviving son David. Quoting from Pamela Mac Arthur's book "The Genteel John O'Hara" about O'Hara's relationship with Joseph 'Pat' Outerbridge: "O'Hara's companionship with Sister (his sister-in-law Winnie Gardiner who later became his wife) ended his long nights with his best friend, Pat Outerbridge. Those nights began at eleven o'clock in the evening and terminated at three o'clock in the morning. Now, he could resume his late night cycle of writing." (p. 175) First Edition with "First Printing" on the copyright page

The first edition ( stated ) published by Random House in 1956. Bound in publisher's patterned blue boards and gray cloth spine. This copy has been inscribed, with wit, to O' Harar's mother-in-law. The inscrition reads; ' To Katherine B. Barnes with love from her * contested son-in-law John O' Hara. Quoque, Long Island, 7 August 1956. ' under this O'Hara has clarified ' * contented '. A fine example of the book in a near fine ( price clipped ) dust jacket. The first edition, inscribed to the author's mother-in-law. b