North Toward Home [Inscribed Association copy]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Inscribed and dated by the author on the free front endpaper. Octavo (22cm); black cloth covered boards titled in yellow on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 438pp. Faint forward lean; tiny spot of discoloration on rear board; light rubbing; faint foxing to the textblock; Very Good+. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.95) with nicks and tiny tears mostly to the spine ends; Very Good+.
Morris's acclaimed memoir of boyhood in Yazoo City, Mississippi, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award for 1967. This copy with a contemporary inscription to "Jack," likely Jack Fischer, Morris's colleague and co-editor at Harper's Magazine: "To Jack, Who taught me the business and taught me about courage and humanity; with the gratitude and affection of his greatest admirer- Willie;" dated October 2, 1967.
Price: $150.00