B52.4 THE VIOLENT SEASON 1961

[across two facing pages:] [on left, flush right:] BY Robert Goulet | [on right:] The Violent Season | GEORGE BRAZILLER, NEW YORK, 1961

Collation: [1]–[12]16, 192 leaves.

p.[1] [flush left] The Violent Season; pp.[2]–[3] title-pages; p.[4] copyright, rights reservation, LC card and printing notices; p.[5] dedication; p.[6] fiction disclaimer; p. [7] quotation from George Washington Cable and comment signed: R.G.; p.[8] blank; pp.9–383 text, with pp.[24, 48, 112, 140, 178, 198, 218, 256, 268, 286, 334, 374, 378] being blank; p.[384] blank.

20.9 × 13.7 cm. Bulk: 3.2/3.9 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed; top edges only stained grey. White wove endpapers. Bound in tan cloth, back blank; front stamped in black in lower right with facsimile signature of Robert Goulet; spine stamped in black: [in irregular letters] THE | VIOLENT | SEASON | [black rule] | [in orange irregular letters] Robert Goulet | [black rule] | [in orange irregular letters] GEORGE BRAZILLER

Price: $4.50. Number of copies undetermined. Published 26 April 1961 in white dust-jacket printed in purple, red, yellow and orange.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is the advertisement on p. [7] and a letter from Graves to Braziller on the back of the dust-jacket.

This replaces B56 in the first edition of this bibliography that incorrectly listed the W. H. Allen edition as the earliest. It replaces B55.1 in the second edition of this bibliography as an earlier date of publication has now been established.