[Rarebooks] fs: Signed Michener, "The Watermen"

[Back Creek Books]

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For your consideration:
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(No. 5602 )  Michener, James A. (Illustrated by John Moll). THE WATERMEN
(SIGNED BY MICHENER AND MOLL).
New York: Random House, (1979). First printing, Full cloth, Quarto, xii, 193
pages, Black & white pencil sketches, endpaper maps. Good in a good dust
jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      SIGNED by both Michener and Moll on half title page. The book consists
of selections from Michener's novel "Chesapeake." The resulting narrative
stands nicely on its own and is here matched beautifully with the fine
drawings of John Moll depicting watermen, wildlife, oystering, boats, etc.
Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with green stamped spine lettering and
blind stamped illustration to upper board. Top edges of both boards are
extremely faded along a 1" or so margin. Lower fore corners of both boards
have shallow bumps. Jacket has sun faded edges, two short edge tears at head
of spine, and some shallow edge wrinkling. The binding is straight and
sound.    $100.00
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