Sudden & Awful by Thomas Mann and Janet Greene

5 x 9 inch hardcover, with dust jacket. " Sudden & Awful : American Epitaphs and The Finger of God " by Thomas Mann and Janet Greene, illustrated by Robert MacLean. ( The Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, VT 1968 ). Not stated first edition, but 1968 is on the Title / info page. Good used condition. Dust Jacket is mylar covered, it looks like it is chipped a little, rubbed, stains and sun tanned edges. It is not price clipped. Nice green cloth boards with small embossed gilt angels blowing horns , gilt lettering on spine. A little rubbed at corners, and a small tear at top of spine. Clean and readable pages. " The focal point of this collection of tombstone inscriptions is colonial, pioneer, and frontier American attitudes toward death by misadventure - the "bolt from the blue " by which God taketh away. "