Arena [*SIGNED*]

New York/Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1958). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear to lower extremities, tanning of pages typical of Rinehart books from this period; the jacket is badly faded at the spine, otherwise just a bit edgeworn with a few tiny closed tears]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author at the upper right corner of the front endpaper: "for Harold & Leslie / fondly / Charlie / 1959." Novel that "ranges from '21' in New York to the bullrings of Spain and Mexico, as Jason Kirk, sports correspondent for a large news syndicate, follows the public and private career of the first sword of Spain, Rodrigo Andrade." The author was also a screenwriter, with several dozen credits to his; his last screen credit, for THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA, appeared the same year as this book. The original hardcover edition is surprisingly uncommon. Signed by Author .