{"product_id":"to-2026-063","title":"Careless Love (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eADAMS, Alice. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCareless Love.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: New American Library, 1966.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOctavo. 183 pp. In the publisher's dust jacket. Dedicated in print to Max and Diana Steele. A decorative bookplate accompanies the volume. An attractive, well-preserved copy in the publisher's jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSigned by Alice Adams on the title page and inscribed by her on the front free endpaper: \"For Mig, with love from Alice, June 1966\" — the month of publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCareless Love\u003c\/em\u003e was Alice Adams's first book. She was forty when it appeared, after years as a single mother doing clerical work in San Francisco and writing in stolen hours; it is a sharp, bittersweet portrait of the divorced, upper-Bohemian Bay Area of the early 1960s — the social world she would go on to map across eleven novels and decades of \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e stories. A signed and inscribed copy of her first book, dated to the month of publication, is genuinely scarce.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-063\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adams, Alice","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459952562337,"sku":"TO-2026-063","price":425.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-063_01.jpg?v=1784608808","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-063","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}