The Gentle Insurrection: And Other Stories Signed

by Doris Betts

$75 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm ; green cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; light green topstain; 274pp. Signed by Betts on title page. Spine-faded, with light rubbing to titling and shelf-soil to covers; Very Good. Lacking dustwrapper. The author's first book, a collection of 12 short stories including The Sympathetic

• Printing: first

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