Catherine Carmier

US Atheneum (New York), 1964, is the true first and the only contemporaneous edition; no British edition of Gaines's first book was traced in the sources consulted. This is Gaines's first book — the first Gaines 'A' item — and a rewrite of the manuscript he wrote at seventeen and destroyed after rejection. Later Vintage/North Point paperback issues are 'first thus' reprints, not firsts.