SINNING WITH ANNIE AND OTHER STORIES. Signed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972.
1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Presentation Copy. First Edition. 8vo., 210pp., black cloth, with orange & green lettering to the spine, orange topstain. The author's scarce first collection of short stories. A very personal inscription to the Title Page reads: "To Peter and Ann Marie / with love and best wishes, / Paul 15 Sept 1974". A number of stories have check marks at the table of contents page as if a previous reader were marking their favorites. A near fine copy in a bright crisp dust jacket showing minimal use. ".the stories are bound together by a single thread - the author's tragic-comic vision of the world."
Item #27108 Price: US$685.00