signed first edition Hardcover
(c.1975) · New York
by Smith, Steven Phillip
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1975). First Edition. Hardcover. 0399114629 . [nice solid copy, light fading to cloth at top/bottom edges, also on spine (with faint "shadow" of lettering on spine of jacket), very minor soiling to bottom edge; jacket very slightly browned, otherwise clean and attractive]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on ffep in the year of publication; the inscription is to a colleague (or agent?) who the author thanks for "paving the way for me at Putnam's....and for spreading [the book] through the stores all over town." The author's first novel, about "four distinctly American young men who are drawn together by the shared frustrations of army base life and volunteer as a unit for combat service" in Vietnam. [NOTE that the jacket and the book carry different ISBNs, with the one on the jacket being correct.] Signed by Author . (Inventory #: 14531)