Curiously, Taylor dates the inscription "1955"—two years prior to the publication of this work, and identifies the locale as "city". Taylor's fourth book and first play attends to a family of Southerners celebrating Tennessee Day. Taylor, Stafford, and Robert Lowell were close—Lowell and Taylor attended Kenyon College together and the three formed a close friendship that lasted through Lowell's frequent manic-depressive bouts and Stafford's alcoholism. Bound in quarter beige cloth with blue paper over boards, showing general toning and some bumps at edges, else near fine in a like variant dust jacket with no price indicated and a "3/57" code at lower front flap.