A Piece of My Heart (SIGNED)

FORD, Richard.

A Piece of My Heart.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, signed by the author on the title page. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

Octavo. 297 pp. Quarter brown cloth over paper-covered boards. A fine copy in the publisher's unclipped color-illustrated wraparound dust jacket designed by Wendell Minor.

Richard Ford's first novel — published when he was thirty-two, a full decade before The Sportswriter (1986) would establish him among the central American novelists of his generation. Set on an island in the southern Mississippi River, A Piece of My Heart follows two men — one pursuing a woman, the other pursuing himself — through a landscape of menace and violence; reviewers at the time noted the shadow of Faulkner over its Southern world. Signed first novels of major novelists, in first printing and fine condition, hold their value steadily.

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