Flannery O'Connor from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Sewanee, TN: The University of the South, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 228pp, printed wrappers. Contains a 96-page section of "Diverse Readings of Flannery O'Connor" by Caroline Gordon and others, plus writing by Kathleen Raine, Allen Tate, Herbert Read, et al. Clean copy with typical wear and closed tears to lap cover edges,… Read more about this item

Gambier, OH: Kenyon College, 1956. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 176pp, printed wrappers. Contains the original appearance of the story Greenleaf by Flannery O'Connor (Farmer C.1956.6; later included in Everything That Rises Must Converge). Subscription form laid in. Nice unmarked copy with minor wear.

Gambier, OH: Kenyon College, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. Contains the original appearance of the story The Comforts of Home by Flannery O'Connor (Farmer C.1960.3; later included in Everything That Rises Must Converge). Also includes two poems by Sylvia Plath (The Colossus and The Beekeeper's Daughter, preceding their book publication),… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: The Atlantic Monthly Company, 1970. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 154pp, stapled wrappers. This issue of the Atlantic Monthly features the early story The Barber by Flannery O'Connor (Farmer C.1970.2). Also a cover by Larry Rivers illustrating Soldiers by Ward Just. Unmarked copy with mailing label to the famed Phoenix Book Shop… Read more about this item

Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 156pp, printed wrappers. This uncommon 1968 literary magazine includes articles on Flannery O'Connor, Norman Mailer, V. S. Naipaul, et al. Also an interview with James Merrill. Unmarked copy, light wear at spine.

Minneapolis, MN: Critique, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce early issue of this significant journal of literary criticism, with articles on Flannery O'Connor, Bernard Malamud, Katherine Mansfield, Iris Murdoch, and Ivy Compton-Burnett. Unmarked copy, light sunning to wrappers.

Clemson, SC: The South Carolina Review, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 136pp, printed wrappers. Scarce literary journal, includes the first publication of the story An Exile in the East by Flannery O'Connor (Farmer C.1978.1), with introductory discussion. Also work by Eudora Welty, Marion Montgomery, et al. Unmarked copy, light wear.… Read more about this item

Minneapolis, MN: Critique, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 100pp, printed wrappers. Scarce early issue of this significant journal of literary criticism, with articles on Flannery O'Connor, Ales Redol, Frederic Raphael, Muriel Spark, Marion Montgomery, et al. Unmarked copy, light wear.

Sewanee, TN: The University of the South, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 196pp, printed wrappers. Contains the first appearance of the story "Revelation" by Flannery O’Connor (Farmer C.1964.4). Unmarked copy with some wear and small closed tears to the lap cover edges and light spotting to fore edge.

Sewanee, TN: The University of the South, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 196pp, printed wrappers. Contains the first appearance of the novella The Lame Shall Enter First by Flannery O’Connor (Farmer C.1962.10). Also features critical essays on her work by Robert Fitzgerald and John Hawkes. Unusually well preserved, internally clean copy… Read more about this item

New York: New American Library, 1952. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 12mo, 320pp, printed wrappers. The 1952 first volume of this important series. Includes an excerpt from Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (Farmer C.1952.1), plus William Gaddis, Christopher Isherwood, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Wright Morris, Frank O'Hara, Thomas Merton, Themistocles Hoetis, et… Read more about this item

Detroit: University of Detroit, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. Scarce 1961 literary magazine, includes The Novelist and Free Will by Flannery O'Connor (2 pages, taken from letters to Winifred McCarthy; Farmer C.1961.5). O'Connor is named on the front cover. This copy belonged to poet Larry Eigner and… Read more about this item

New York: A.M.D.G. Publishing Co., Inc, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 56pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce Catholic literary magazine executive-edited by Robert Lax, includes the first appearance of Mary Ann by Flannery O'Connor (Farmer C.1961.9; preceding its publication as the introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann in the same year). This… Read more about this item

Sewanee, TN: The University of the South, 1954. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 198pp, printed wrappers. Contains the first appearance of the short story The Displaced Person by Flannery O’Connor (Farmer C.1954.3). Also features writing by Stephen Spender, James Dickey, and others. Volume index and gift order form laid in. Nice copy… Read more about this item

Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 120pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes an essay on Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood" by Robert M. Rechnitz and a memorial poem for O'Connor by Raymond Roseliep, plus Para Lee Brock on "The South's Injustice to Robert E. Lee" and… Read more about this item

Columbia, SC: The Rathasker Press, 1983. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 36pp, stapled wrappers. Rare little magazine from South Carolina, includes two letters from Flannery O'Connor to Caroline Gordon, plus writing by Thomas Kinsella et al. Library stamp and notations to front cover (no other markings), some general wear and spotting.

New York: The Nation Company, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 24pp, stapled wrappers. This 1965 issue of The Nation includes a review of Flannery O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge by Webster Schott" (mentioned on cover), a poem by Robert Duncan, a cover story on The Return of Flying Saucers by… Read more about this item

Lexington, VA: Washington and Lee University, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 68pp, stapled wrappers. Uncommon literary magazine from 1965, includes letters from Flannery O'Connor to Richard Stern (plus Stern's memoirs of O'Connor), as well as "The Faulkner I Knew" by Maurice Edgar Coindreau (Farmer C.1965.1). Unmarked copy, light outer wear.

Sewanee, TN: The University of the South, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 188pp, printed wrappers. Contains "Flannery O'Connor's Campaign for Her Country: An Obituary" by Brainard Cheney, plus writing by Kathleen Raine et al. Clean copy with typical wear and closed tears to lap cover edges.

Dubuque, IA: Dominicans of Aquinas Institute, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 84pp, printed wrappers. Rare premiere issue of this Catholic little magazine, contains "Flannery O'Connor: Christian Belief in Recent Fiction" by Barnabas Davis (17pp with notes), an examination of the author's work from a year after her death. Also discussion of… Read more about this item