R.P. Harriss THE FOXES First ed. 1936 and similar items

THE FOXES. By R. [Robert] P. [Preston] Harriss. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, 1936. First edition. 1936 printed to the title page, $2.50 to the jacket's flap. Harriss, who grew up in North Carolina, and wrote researched columns and articles on the area draws on his experiences and knowledge for this, his only novel, that is set in the Carolinas, and in and around an old mansion going to ruin, swathed with animal-rich forests and swamps, and dealing with people--Blacks and Whites nicely co-existing, dogs, horses, wild-life, foxes, fox hunting, and more. Many of the animals and foxes are named. Harriss was a highly lauded veteran newspaper writer, columnist, editor, cultural writer, and arts critic in Baltimore, with a decade in Paris, and a time as H.L. Mencken's assistant. A decent vintage collectible in dust jacket. Fine in cream-salmon linen with silver embossed fox heads and titles to the ribbed front cover and with silver embossed titles to a ribbed spine; in a very good dust jacket with nicks and some darkened blue to the upper spine end, some darkened blue to the upper and lower shelf-edges of the front panel, and to the spine folds and front flap fold, minor creases to the rear panel, and some paper-tape reinforcing to the verso; original printed $2.50 price still intact to the front inner flap. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable, protective sleeve, after scanning for this entry. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!