In the American Grain.

Norfolk: New Directions [1939]. Second printing. 235 pp. Top edge dusty, small stain to lower corner of front board, else near fine in very good dust jacket that has overall edge wear and chipping. Introduction by Horace Gregory. A volume in the “New Classics” series. Clifford Odets’ copy, with his embossed stamp “CLIFFORD ODETS / NEW YORK” on the front free endpaper. He has also bracketed one paragraph, and added on the verso of the last leaf, a corresponding “X-206.” Wallace A9b.