Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1939. With contributions by John Cheever, Eudora Welty -- preceding both their first books -- Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, Robert M. Coates, William Saroyan, Meridel LeSueur, and others. Edited by Edward J. O'Brien. Bookplate of screenwriter and film director Leo McCarey on the front pastedown and offsetting to the front flyleaf from same; near fine in a bright, very good dust jacket with rubbing to the edges and folds. It's anecdotal, but when we were compiling a full set of The Best American Short Stories, it was this volume that proved the most elusive. [#031326] SOLD