The First Lover and Other Stories

Kay Boyle (1902 - 1992)

1993 First Edition.  Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, New York

Octavo.  Gold letters on full blue cloth sans dust jacket, top edge stained yellow, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-trimmed.  Spine slightly faded, else FINE.  249pp.  Kay Boyle published more than 40 books, including 14 novels, eight volumes of poetry, 11 collections of short fiction.  She won the O. Henry Awards, two Guggenheim Fellowships, was given a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.  She taught creative writing and San Francisco State College from 1963-1979.