The Ultimate Good Luck

Book Description

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1981. An agent's copy of his second novel, a hard-boiled thriller involving American expatriates in Mexico. The front flyleaf bears two stamps of the Paris literary agency McKee and Mouche, plus the stamp of Shakespeare and Company, and one inked out stamp. Stapled to the first blank is a 4-page photocopy of the typescript of a review of the book for Atlanta Magazine by the novelist Thomas Cook. Ford was a little known writer at the time, and the regional nature of the review enclosed, by a Southern writer who was at the time more well known than Ford, is indicative of this. The agency stamps are again present on the title page, where the author has signed this copy with his name and the French exclamation Zut Alors!. Partly because of the weak construction at the rear hinge, which tends to crack, this title has become harder to locate, particularly in fine condition, than his first book. This copy is fine in a near fine dust jacket with a closed tear at the upper front spine fold. . First Edition. hardcover.

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