James Jones

First edition of Jones's first and most celebrated novel, inscribed by Jones and his patron Lowney Handy to Ora Mathers.

• James Jones (American).
• New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951.
• Octavo.
• [14], 861, [5] pp.
• The inscription from Jones reads: "With great appreciation for your taste" and Handy's, on the opposite page: "To my good friend Ora Matthers / "No angel".
• Black cloth boards and illustrated dust jacket.

Jones is best known From Here to Eternity, his debut novel and the winner of the National Book Award, and for The Thin Red Line. He wrote much of the former at the Handy Writers' Colony in Marshall, Illinois, a writers' commune founded by Handy and her husband Harry that supported writers including John Bowers and Tom T. Chamales, as well as Jones, from 1950 to 1964.