A Death In The Family New A small owner’s signature at

A small owner’s signature at top right hand corner of the front free endpaper

first printing $400

Doubleday a division of Random House

Nearly all of the unsold copies of this original edition were destroyed by a warehouse fire three years later

First state with “lay” for “lie”on page 86

A Death In The Family New A small owner’s signature atA Death In The Family by James Agee First edition, Second State $125. 00. McDowell, Obolensky New York, 1957. A near fine copy of the book with an owners stamp to the top right of the front free endpaper. The dust jacket has some sunning to the spine and a small chip to the top left of the spine of the dust jacket. Agees mesmerizing final book which won him the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, published posthumously.