New York: Atheneum, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the John P. Marquand First Novel Award. William Stryon said this about the book: 'The Morning and the Evening is indisputably the work of a greatly gifted writer. It is a haunting and beautiful tale, richly interfused with humor and sharp, unsettling insights into the human predicament. Not the least of Miss Williams' talents is her perfectly focused rendering of the Southern landscape, which comes through with the clear simplicity of Flaubert's Normandy, and with the same sensuous feel of reality. A fine work.' This is the uncommon true first edition (the Book of the Month club edition has a price on the dj, and the first printing statement and is often identified as a first - the only BOMC marking is the embossed dot on the rear cover.)