Reynolds Price. Stated first edition. Dust Jacket: Near Fine. An unclipped jacket with original price $8.95 on inside flap. Author photo by John Menapace. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Atheneum, 1972. No writing or markings found in this well preserved and sturdy edition, 269 pp.
Price, who was Oxford educated, includes a wonderful chapter on Ernest Hemingway as part of his writing. Price has won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the William Faulkner Award.
The author's sixth book, an erudite collection of essays on a diverse and evocatively enlightening array of subjects with indepth critiques of William Faulkner, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, John Milton, a scholarly treatise on Rembrandt and new scenes from Price's first novel. He was a Rhodes Scholar and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.
