HOPE OF HEAVEN

First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding firm with a little bumping and minor fraying at the spine tips. The cloth is fresh and bright. The contents, with the unavoidable offsetting to the inner endpapers (due to the binder's glue) and some toning to the edges, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is a little creased at the head of the lightly faded spine. Not price-clipped ($2.00 to the upper front flap)

Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front endpaper "To Larilla Buch / Guide, counsellor and / friend / With love from / John O'Hara / March 24, 1938". A noirish Hollywood novel inspired by the author's first stint as a screenwriter.