Salvation on a String: and Other Tales of the South

New York ; London: Harper & Bros., 1946. First edition (stated). Octavo in green cloth and DJ; viii, 278 p.: ill.; 22 cm. Near Fine(-) in lightly edge-worn boards; gift inscription to front free endpaper; signed by author ion title page; in Very Good+ lightly edge-worn DJ in mylar. An inch-long closed edge-tear to front DJ panel, which is hardly noticeable. . Hardcover.

Nice copy; uncomon with author sugnature. Chapters entitled: Salvation on a string -- The Cornshucking -- A tempered fellow -- The devil's instrument -- The humble ones -- Love and a fiddle -- Lay this body down -- Fare thee well -- Roll on, John -- Doctor Hyde -- The first death -- The sixth of June -- Frizzle -- Archie and Angus -- Her birthday -- Austin Honey and the buzzards -- The lost Ford -- The locket and the seal -- Supper for the dead -- Saturday night -- Fine wagon. // North Carolina authors; Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.