[Rarebooks] FS: Doris Betts First Book w Long Inscription, price greatly reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $450 NET

BETTS, Doris. THE GENTLE INSURRECTION. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 
(1954). First Edition. Author's first book, graciously INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED at length for---- "Our first -- and warmest -- friends/in Chapel 
Hill./ Even we would-be writers grow/inarticulate when we attempt/to say 
how much the experience/of knowing certain other people/has meant to 
us--/You two have been like that, the/expression of a friendly 
nature/grown all too rare, a standard and/a challenge always--/I hope I 
might someday write/as well, as honestly, as individually/and 
originally, and with the same/admiration for the human spirit/as you 
have written in the/Weekly all these years--/ Sincerely and 
affectionately,/Doris Betts/May 5, 1954." A wonderful four-paragraph 
inscription in Betts's small hand filling up the entire front endpaper. 
Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with light wear. (#008431)        
$850.00

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