signed first edition Hardcover
2000 · New York
by Cooper, Stephen
New York: North Point Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0865475547 . [very nice copy, tight and clean with only light shelfwear; jacket slightly faded at spine, minor surface wear]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("For _____ / Friends in John Fante") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, dated in the year of publication. "In the first comprehensive biography of John Fante, one of the great outsider figures of twentieth-century literature, [the author] untangles the enigma of an authentic American original. .... Exacting in his scholarship, Cooper artfully traces the resemblance between author and Arturo, the hero of Fante's famed autobiographical works." Signed by Author . (Inventory #: 15539)