Signed First Printing of Phillips’ heralded 1979 collection of 27 short stories, many only one or two pages long.

As the New York Times summarized it, “Pool halls; church suppers; Veterans of Foreign Wars rummage sales; rows of workers’ shacks, now empty. Phillips catches the visual and emotional landscape of West Virginia. She catches, too, the things people do to check out when they can’t get out. These stories are filled with drugs and addiction, to speed and smack and sleeping pills and drugstore inhalers.”

Delacorte, 1979. First Printing. Hardcover Very Good, save for old price stamped on first page. Jacket Very Good, some wear to top and bottom corner. In a protective Mylar. Beautiful copy.