[Rarebooks] FS: Beautiful copy of RAINTREE COUNTY with letter from author's widow and author's signature

[Charles Agvent]

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LOCKRIDGE,  Ross  Jr. RAINTREE COUNTY.  Boston:  Houghton  Mifflin
Company  1948. First Edition. Author's first and only book, made  into
a  film  starring  Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.  The  author
committed  suicide  at the age of 33 two months following  publication
and  had  only one scheduled signing for the book. This  copy,  though
not  signed,  has laid in loosely a letter dated 13 June  1948  (three
months  after  the  author's  death)  from  the  author's  widow  to a
reviewer  thanking  him  for his review, explaining that none  of  the
copies  of the books she has are autographed, and enclosing a  clipped
example  of  her husband's SIGNATURE. The envelope  hand-addressed  to
the  Indiana reviewer and marked "Personal" is also laid in. Fine in a
price-clipped, Fine dustwrapper. Lovely copy.                  $750.00


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