Advise and Consent

Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Later printing. Small quarto. 616pp. Bookplate of R. Leonard Miall and gift inscription ("For: Leonard and Lorna from Sally") on front endleaves. Light wear, near fine in a price-clipped and heavily toned, good only dust jacket with short chips and tears, and a diagonal crease and a couple of splash marks on the spine. Nicely Inscribed by Drury on the front fly, beneath the gift inscription: "To Leonard - with friendship and all the best- Al Drury. April 19, 1960." R. Leonard Miall was a broadcaster and administrator for the BBC for 35 years; Lorna was his first wife. Drury's first book, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and perhaps the quintessential 20th Century political novel. Basis for the 1962 Otto Preminger film with a great cast that included Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon, Charles Laughton, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, and Burgess Meredith.