NY, Harcourt Brace, (1960). A memoir, the author's second book of nonfiction, his first having been The Outlaw Years, a study of outlaws along the Natchez Trace in the 1880s. Coates spent time as an expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, where The Eater of Darkness was published, and then returned to the U.S. where he became the art critic for The New Yorker in 1938. Inscribed by the author: "To Harold and May -/ Not much of a view, but still - Best, Bob." Fine in two dust jackets, one of which is fine. [#025969] SOLD