The Woman On the Porch

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. First Edition. Publisher's letter "A" on the copyright page.

Gordon’s reputation as a literary socialite—she was married to poet Alan Tate and counted Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Eliot, and Ford Madox Ford among her friends—has overshadowed the excellence and enduring qualities of her own work, which won her both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the O. Henry Prize (beating out the likes of Saroyan, Faulkner, Steinbeck, and Wolfe) before her 40th birthday.

Toning to the jacket spine and folds, with two nearly imperceptible tears on the front panel, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

[Book #133752]