The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
by: Flannery O'Connor / Sally Fitzgerald (editor, selected by)

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 617 pages. A very nice copy in dust jacket. Some light toning to the jacket. Stated first printing. Original price of $15.00 present on front flap. An illuminating self portrait of the artist as a remarkable young woman whose lineaments, guessed at from a distance, have often been forbiddingly misdrawn. Includes warm and funny personal letters to literary friends: Caroline Gordon, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, J. F. Powers, Walker Percy, Elizabeth Bishop, Granville Hicks, etc. Red lettering on spine with light fading. Clean copy.