The Astronomer and Other Stories

New York, NY: Harper & Row. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1965. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some very beginning fading to the black cloth on the edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. This book contains a series of short works, Including: The Spies in the Herb House, The Mandarin, Clarissa and the Depths, The Dead Mule, The Proud and Virtuous, All that Glisters Isn't Gold, Careful, Sharp Eggs Underfoot, and, The Astronomer. "After working as a newspaper reporter for a number of years, Betts joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1966. She received the UNC Putnam Book Prize in 1954 for her first book, The Gentle Insurrection, three Sir Walter Raleigh Awards (1958, 1965, and 1973) for the best fiction books by a North Carolinian, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Writing (1958–1959) , the North Carolina Award and Medal (1975) , the Distinguished Service Award for Women (Chi Omega) , and the John Dos Passos Award from Longwood College. She has also written articles for professional journals, lectured at writers' conferences, and delivered speeches on major college campuses. In 1980 she was named a UNC Alumni Distinguished Professor of English. She received the Tanner Award for distinguished undergraduate teaching in 1973 and the Katherine Carmichael Teaching Award in 1980." (from Wikipedia) .