[Rarebooks] FS: Richard Yates First Book Appearance INSCRIBED to his Lover

[Charles Agvent]

YATES, Richard; BERRIAULT, Gina; EPSTEIN, Seymour; and BARRETT, B. L. 
SHORT STORY 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1958). First Edition. 
A collection of seven stories by Berriault preceding her first book by 
two years. Also four stories by Richard Yates, his first published 
collection of stories preceding his novel REVOLUTIONARY ROAD by three 
years. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Yates on the title page of 
Yates's section to Barbara McCallum: "For Barbara/'If ever any beauty I 
did see/Which I desired, and got, 'twas/but a dream of thee.'/Dick (& J. 
Donne.)/12/16/60." These four writers were selected from a group of 250 
in this first volume in a series meant to showcase promising young 
writers. With the label of Yates's agent, Monica McCall, on the front 
free endpaper. Near Fine in a Good dustwrapper split where the spine 
meets the front cover but still fairly attractive under mylar.

In August 1960, Yates met Sweet Briar College student Barbara Singleton 
Beury at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont, where Beury was 
a scholarship waitress. At that point, Yates was separated from his 
wife, Sheila, but not yet divorced, living in a basement apartment in 
New York City, teaching creative writing at the New School, and working 
to get his first novel, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, through to publication. He 
was dealing with his tremendous stress by drinking and smoking heavily, 
and ultimately suffered a nervous breakdown when Beury visited him in 
New York in early September, 1960. He spent Labor Day weekend in the 
Men's Violence Ward of Bellevue Hospital, and, after his release, began 
corresponding with Beury who visited a few times over the course of the 
coming months. Most visits went poorly, with Yates still in a deep 
depression and drinking heavily, and Beury gradually distanced herself 
from Yates completely breaking things off in 1961. (#019644)        $2,500

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