8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gold (lettering on spine slightly dulled, a few small indentations on front cover); in unclipped dust jacket with Wolfe's photo on the rear panel (minor chipping and tears, some with old cello tape repairs verso, some rubbing and a few stains); cloth slipcase in the style of the dust jacket design.

FIRST EDITION OF WOLFE'S FIRST AND BEST BOOK, in the first state jacket with Wolfe's photo by Doris Ulmann on the rear panel. Set in fictional Altamont, Catawba, North Carolina, Look Homeward, Angel is the semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story of Eugene Gant. Immediate critical response was generally positive.  In her review for The New York Times, Margaret Wallace wrote that Wolfe's work was "as interesting and powerful a book as has ever been made out of the drab circumstances of provincial American life."