Lady

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition, signed by Tryon on title page. Octavo, 341 pp. Black cloth with gilt spine imprinting, pictorial jacket. Handsome Near Fine copy, with a spot of soiling to bottom page edges and a nick at the top of two pages, in a near fine jacket which has been price-clipped. Sharp. A collector's copy of former-actor Tom Tryon's third novel (after The Other and Harvest Home), Lady is another tale told in Tryon's unique neo-gothic tone - this time, the story of a woman - "the lady of Pequot Landing, who reigns lightly over the town from the time of her young widowhood just after the First World War, through the twenties, through the Bust and the dreaded New Deal and the Great Hurricane of '38 and Pearl Harbor." But, of course, there is an unimaginable secret behind Lady. L19n.