NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1980). The uncorrected proof copy of her first book and her only novel until Gilead, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. Housekeeping won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, a Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award, and was the basis for a well-received movie; it was also named one of the best works of American fiction in a 25-year period in a survey by The New York Times Book Review. Top corner a trifle bumped, still fine in wrappers. Laid in is a letter from an editor to John Fowles asking for his comments. An important first novel, this copy having distinguished provenance. [#911122] SOLD