[Item #52268] By The North Gate [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]. Joyce Carol OATES.

By The North Gate [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]

New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in silver and orange on spine, and decorative elements embossed onto front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; [11],12-253,[3]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Tiny wrinkle to spine ends, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.50), with gentle sunning to spine and some trivial wear to extremities.

The author's first book and first collection of short fiction, gathering 14 stories told "within a framework of realism, in a world of sex and blood, of poverty and poetry" (from front flap).

Price: $400.00

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