Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter blue cloth with olive-grey boards. Tan endpapers. In original unclipped ($19.95) dust jacket, illustrated by Wendell Minor. 567, [1] pages. Inscribed by Conroy on title page: "To Jim and Leland, Merry Christmas, Pat Conroy". Touch of creasing to jacket edges.

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