Sanibel Flats.
signed first edition
1990 · New York
by White, Randy Wayne.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, (1990). First edition of author’s first book. Signed by White. Octavo, black boards, 307 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing to page edges; in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: ”Doc” Ford’s memories of his adventurous past bring him only mild regret for the few good ones and real relief that the rest is bhind him. Then a phone call takes him harshly back into the “cold” he has come out of. The call is from an old high school friend and later drinking buddy; it leads to Ford’s discovery of a presumed suicide. Because of it, Ford’s quiet existence on Sanibel Island is shattered. Reluctantly, he leaves behind his work as a marine biologist, his boat, and the stilt house on the Flats that serves as home and lab, to return to the turbulent Central American country fom which he had barely escaped with his life... (Inventory #: 3307bd)