8vo. Original black cloth (slight rubbing to spine ends and corners, short tear to head of spine); publisher's unclipped dust jacket (tiny loss to foot of spine panel, some light creasing and rubbing to extremities). 

FIRST EDITION of Metalious's first work, which remained on The New York Times bestseller list for more than a year and which became an international phenomenon.  Peyton Place exposes the dark secrets of a fictional New England town, a combination of several New Hampshire towns. 

[With:] Return to Peyton Place. New York: Julian Messner, 1959. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Provenance: Blind stamp on title and owner's signature.  FIRST EDITION of Metalious's sequel to her sensational first novel.