Forrest Gump.

GROOM, Winston.

Item Number: 123967

New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1986.

First  edition of this modern classic, basis for the 1994 film starring Tom Hanks. Octavo, original half cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the half-title page, “Let me say this: Being a idiot is no box of chocolates.” Forrest Gump (signed by his friend, Winston Groom.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Bill Creevy. A unique example.

Six foot six, 242 pounds, and possessed of a scant IQ of 70, Forrest Gump is the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this classic comic tale. His early life may seem inauspicious, but when the University of Alabama’s football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, it sets him on an unbelievable path that will transform him from Vietnam hero to world-class Ping-Pong player, from wrestler to entrepreneur. With a voice all his own, Forrest is telling all in a madcap romp through three decades of American history.