O'Hara, John

A Family Party

New York, NY, USA: Random House, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by John O'Hara. "A delightful and heart-warming novelette about small-town America- by the author of Ten North Frederick and Appointment in Samarra. The story develops from a family party- a testimonial dinner- in honor of Dr. Sam Merritt's first forty years of service to his community, Lyons, Pennsylvania." (from front flap) A charming short novel by John O'Hara (1905-1970), the great, award-winning & prolific American novelist, critic & short story writer whose works have been canonized in the Library of America series. Hardcover in unclipped first-issue dust jacket (with $1.95 price & "8/56" printed at front flap), first edition, first printing as stated at copyright page. On the title page, above printed title, O'Hara has hand-written his signature in bold black ink. A scarce O'Hara collectible in its rarest contemporary form, substantially enriched with his signature. See also our item No.s 2193, 2194 & 4684. Book in relatively quite fine condition with slight rubbing, faint scratching to front, back covers & spine; very slight wear, mild fading & a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same; mild browning, rubbing to side & lower edges of text block; slight fading, rubbing to black-dyed upper edge of same. Interior fine with mild browning to blank paste-downs & endpapers; blind-embossed circular seal of previous owner at lower left area of front endpaper penetrating to verso of leaf; mild browning to page leaves, chiefly at blank margins/edges; miniscule bumps at corners of a few page leaves. Dust jacket (again relatively) near-fine with mild-to-moderate rubbing, browning, faint scraching & occasional spotting to front, back covers, spine & flaps; light wear & some tiny bumps, creases at/from edges & corners of same; one tiny vertical hole at middle-right edge of spine. Fine / Near Fine. [Item #7218]

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