Octavo. Tan boards quarterbound in a lighter tan cloth backstrip with blue

Octavo. Tan boards quarterbound in a lighter tan cloth backstrip with blue lettering on the spine. Book has a very faint bump at the tail of the spine. Cream colored endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on the free front endpaper. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 264 pages. Dust Jacket-Tan paper dust jacket has a nearly unnoticable trace of rubbing at the tail of the spine and a couple very faint scrape marks on the rear cover. Front cover, flaps, spine are all clean and bright. Upper and lower edges sharp. Original $8.95 price printed on the upper corner of the front inside flap. Tight, clean, attractive copy of Wolfe's first novel; rare.