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NEW YORK NY: ATHENEUM. FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. PUB 1964. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. WITH REVIEW SLIP & A TYPED LETTER TO HERB HILL (LABOR SECRETARY OF OF NAACP) SIGNED BY PUB DIR OF ATHENEUM SOLICITING COMMENTS . QUARTER BOUND GREEN PAPER COVERED BOARDS WITH GREY CLOTH SPINE WITH GILT TITLES, AND TOP EDGE STAINED RED. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS ABOUT FINE WITH JUST A TOUCH OF WEAR TO THE ENDS OF A SLIGHTLY COLOR-FADED SPINE PANEL, A TRACE OF CORNER WEAR, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S SCARCE FIRST BOOK WITH NO TEARS TO D.J. .

New York: Atheneum, 1964. First edition of Gaines' first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page with the added words, "When Brother got out of the car, the two Cajuns sitting on the porch turned to look at him. Ernest J. Gaines." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. A unique example. Catherine Carmier is a compelling love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence. "[Gaines's] best writing is marked by what Ralph Ellison, describing the blues, called near-tragic, near-comic lyricism" (Newsweek).His 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Gaines has been a MacArthur Foundation fellow, awarded the National Humanities Medal, and inducted into the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) as a Chevalier.

Very Good to Near Fine book, spine ends soft with slight soiling, light soiling or rubbing to bottom page edges, small, light spot to top edge stain; in a Very Good, price-clipped, jacket that has edge and corner wear, couple of small chips, color loss at spine ends and corners, spine is sun yellowed, as are edges of the white flaps. This was Gaines’ first book. This copy has been inscribed and signed by Gaines on fly leaf and dated March 12, 1974 – San Francisco.

Atheneum, 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Signed by Gaines on the title page. Front hinge a little weak. Half-inch by eighth-inch chip to top of jacket on spine..