signed first edition
1976 · Chicago
by Maclean, Norman
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1976. First Edition. Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Good. Light lean to spine. Musty odor to pages. Cloth lightly mottled, spotting to spine cloth with corresponding spots to blindside of dust jacket, textblock edge is soiled and foxed. In a Very Good dust jacket with uneven sunning, general wear, rubbing and spotting to the blindside. A near-winner of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize--it was recommended by the Pulitzer's fiction jury, but overridden by the Pulitzer Prize Board which holds more authority, and ultimately no award for literature was given that year.
(Inventory #: 140943916)