Vance Bourjaily SIGNED 1st LTD FRANKLIN LIBRARY Book

FlatSigned by Vance Bourjaily, an American writer, novelist, playwright, journalist, and essayist, considered by Ernest Hemingway to be one of the most talented novelists of his generation! "The Great Fake Book spans four decades in America--from the optimistic post-World War II years to the chaotic months of the Iranian hostage crisis. Charles Mizzourin, a thirty-year-old congressional aide during Jimmy Carter's presidency, knows only that his dad, Mike, was a reporter for a New York newspaper in the late 1940's. Since Mike had been killed in an automobile accident when Charles was still a baby, and since Charles' mother, former fashion model Livia Scaliger, refuses to talk about Mike, Charles must enlist help elsewhere. He finds it in John McRae Johnson, once Mike's editor, now retired in Colorado." A fantastic collector's item!

Book is beautifully bound in brown leather with all edge gilt on text block, decorative gilt on boards, a permanent satin bookmark, collector's notes, marbled end pages and a hubbed spine. Author has signed the book on a front flyleaf. Book is in VERY GOOD+ condition and is square and tightly bound with clean, crisp pages inside. Some very light rubbing to the corners. Gilt on edges of text block have some minor blemishes. Previous owner or bookstore has penciled in a price and stock number at the top of one of the front flyleaves. Make this incredible book a part of your collection today!

FlatSigned means HAND SIGNED on the page by the author, not personalized (as in "To Billy") or signed on an attached sticker or bookplate. A book which has been FlatSigned is almost always a better investment and is far more desirable than a book that is personalized or contains a signed sticker/bookplate.

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