Episode in Palmetto

London: The Falcon Press, 1951.

First UK Edition in the striking dust-jacket, slightly chiipped at ends of backstrip and corner tips, but unprice-clipped (showing original price of 10s 6d). Couple of light spots of foxing to endpapers. A VG+ copy. One of Caldwell's long line of overwhelmingly nubile girls is heroine Vernona. She is the new school teacher in the small low-country town of Palmetto, and it takes her just two weeks to stir up every available man - "smoke them out" as her landlady's husband puts it - to make them forget their inhibitions and go after what they really want; which does not, inevitably, mean Vernona.