Selected Stories Southern engraved throughout with 49 leaves

engraved throughout with 49 leaves incorporating pictorial title ('Advis au Lecteur' on verso)

Small quarto (28 x 23 cms)

This was a year before fellow American Robert Peary claimed the same thing

born out of the exhilarating sense of liberation that came to me on first setting foot in Athens" wrote King

this is the first one-volume edition

Selected Stories Southern engraved throughout with 49 leavesLondon: Jonathan Cape, 1951. First Edition. A volume in the 'Travellers' Library' series. Publisher's burnished red cloth with 'TL' emblem to upper board repeated together with the title at the spine. With the excellent and unclipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed along the edge of the backstrip. With old inscriptions of other interior markings. A near fine copy. No American edition of this book was issued. A collection of nineteen short stories.