Her Own Place

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1993. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition, 1993. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 243 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Signed on the titlepage by Sanders and inscribed by her to Matthew J. Bruccoli--also a signed postcard laid in. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series.