1951 1st edition "First Edition" stated; Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York; hardbound in light grey boards with dark blue lettering on spine; quite good conditon with unmarked pages and minimal age foxing; no dust jacket.
 
Description -
Novel set in 1905 - John Merrill, a painter living in Paris, returns to America and heads to a town in the South in search of his brother who apparently eloped with a young woman 5 years earlier and then disappeared, leaving her alone and ill in St Louis. The author's first and apparently only novel.