IN THE LAND OF DREAMY DREAMS, by ELLEN GILCHRIST.

The National Book Award winning Southern author's FIRST BOOK of FICTION, preceded only by a book of poems.

Published by the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1981. Second Printing of the First Edition, with "Second Printing" stated on the copyright page.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by GILCHRIST on the title page:

"For Ann / Done in the fullness of time / Ellen Gilchrist".

Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, brick colored cloth covered boards, spine titled in gilt, 5x8.5 inches, 167 pages.

Condition: NEAR FINE book, sharp cornered, tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a GOOD dustjacket that is sunned at the spine, has a bit of wear at the top of the spine and corner tips, and has two pea-size brown stains on the blank backside. A solid, nice, very presentable copy.

From the front dj flap: "Ellen Gilchrist writes about New Orleans as no other writer. Laced with envy, greed, lust, terror, and self-deceit, her stories will shock and compel readers. Gilchrist's characters, women who dream of independent lives beyond the shadows of their husbands and fathers, resort to outrageous schemes in pursuit of freedom and fulfillment, despite the consequences."

Ellen Gilchrist was born in 1935 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She currently lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Ocean Springs, Mississippi. She was a professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of Arkansas.