Early Autumn Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield’s Early Autumn (Pulitzer Prize-Fiction, 1927) is the third novel in the author’s Escape tetralogy. In addition to holding first printings of two of the three other works in the series, The Gianakos-Safos Collection contains five copies of Early Autumn:
- One advance copy, with an attached author hand inscription and signature
- One rare publisher first issue, possibly the first copy ever issued, with a dustjacket variant that does not include the note that this novel was never previously serialized
- One second printing, before publication, dated October 5, 1926
- One author signed and inscribed association copy
- One third printing, dated November 3, 1926