Looking for Baby Paradise [Signed and Inscribed by Speicher]
- SIGNED
- New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. Stated First Edition. Octavo (21cm); 200pp. Publisher’s pictorial dust jacket with $4.50 price intact; boards bound in black cloth with copper stamping to spine; charcoal endsheets and orange topstain. Dust jacket lightly bumped at spine ends and corners; small chip appears at rear panel spine head but does not obstruct text. Boards slightly bumped at spine ends; otherwise clean with sharp corners. Binding sound. Topstain faded with faint foxing to textblock while endsheets and interior pages remain clean. A Very Good or better copy of this scarcely-signed novel. Inscribed, signed, and dated by the author on full title page.
Inscribed “Dan, For the invaluable editing, many thanks — and I look forward to more of the same in the future.” Signed familiarly by the author with only his first name. Dan Wickenden served as an editor at Harcourt from 1953 until his retirement in 1978.
Inscribed “Dan, For the invaluable editing, many thanks — and I look forward to more of the same in the future.” Signed familiarly by the author with only his first name. Dan Wickenden served as an editor at Harcourt from 1953 until his retirement in 1978.