The Miraculous Fish of Domingo Gonzales [*SIGNED*]

New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1950). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [cheaply-manufactured book showing wear to boards at all corners and along bottom edge, otherwise a decent clean copy; jacket has a couple of tiny shallow chips, at top of rear panel and top of spine (the latter slightly affecting the author's name)]. INSCRIBED humorously to a friend and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, dated in the year of publication. Satirical novel about a small Mexican fishing village which gets "civilized" (and corrupted) when an American buyer of shark livers comes to town to do business with Domingo Gonzales, "a notorious deadbeat who caught nothing but sharks." The author had previously written three novels (including the justly famous "Detour"), although this fact is curiously unmentioned in the jacket blurb for this book -- which emphasizes his extensive travels about (and two-year residence in) Mexico, while off-handedly noting that "he has done much free-lance writing for magazines and movies." (This is also the only one of his four novels to bear a photograph of its author on the jacket.) Signed by Author .