Jean Stafford — The Mountain Lion

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this charming novel from American writer Jean Stafford. First edition. One summer, inseparable siblings Molly and Ralph are sent from the Los Angeles suburb they call home to backwoods Colorado where their Uncle Claude has a ranch. Written by Jean Stafford, an American short story writer and novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970. In the original full cloth biding. Externally, very smart with minor bumping to the extremities. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Minor sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the panels. A small tear to the rear panel. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.