O'CONNOR, Flannery "The Complete Stories" [Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971] 1st edition

O'CONNOR, Flannery. The Complete Stories.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. First printing. Green cloth with red top stain, in original price-clipped dust jacket. 8.5" x 6", xvii + 555pp. Gift inscription on front pastedown. Light shelf wear to the binding. Jacket lightly toned with a small closed tear at the lower left edge of the front panel and a few faint moisture marks to the spine panel and edges. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.

The first edition of O'Connor's complete short fiction, collecting all thirty-one stories from A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Everything That Rises Must Converge, and other sources, together with several previously uncollected pieces. Published seven years after the author's death, this volume became the standard collected edition of her short fiction and won the 1972 National Book Award for Fiction. Widely regarded as one of the essential collections of twentieth-century American literature, it brings together the full range of O'Connor's darkly comic, deeply Catholic vision of the American South.