First edition, first printing stated. Inscribed in ink on the first front blank ""To ____/ Sincerely/ John O'Hara/ 17 Dec. 69"". Hardcover. xi+ 491 pp. Vry good in dust jacket, price clipped and with a shallow chip and two short closed tears top edge of spine. Twenty two stories by O'Hara chosen from his first nine volumes 1935-1966.