signed first edition
1959 · Philadelphia and New York
by Frank, Pat
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1959. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Pat Frank on the front free endpaper and warmly inscribed to a Washington Post literary editor, "For Glendy Culligan - who has sent me so many books, I send this one with admiration. Tangerine '59." Bound in publisher's black cloth boards stamped in silver, pink and blue. Near Fine with light wear to covers, and faint foxing to endsheets and textblock edge. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine, light rubbing at extremities, two vertical scratches to front panel, and faint droplet staining to verso (truncated)