A Long and Happy Life. By Reynolds Price. First Edition, First Printing. Atheneum. New York, 1962.

Reynolds Price was a professor and author who published dozens of novels, short stories, and essays throughout his career. He was a Southern author who masterfully crafted narrators and characters with careful prose. He was also openly gay at a time when his life and career were risked by such personal matters. While his legacy is perhaps less often extolled in the twenty-first century, his generation of authors and critics considered him one of the greatest writers among them. In A Long and Happy Life, establishes himself as a major author. It was his first novel. It won the Faulkner Award and became a bestseller. It remains one of his most acclaimed works.

This first edition, first printing is in very good condition. In the original full cloth, very good with only minor fading, bumping, and soiling to top edge. Text block about-fine, only minor foxing. In the original dust jacket, very good with rubbing, small closed tears, creases, and minor soiling.

A very good first edition of Reynolds Price’s first novel.