In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash.
"In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that, as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan": First Edition of In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash; inscribed by Jean Shepherd to Hugh Hefner
In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash.
SHEPHERD, Jean. [Hugh Hefner].
Item Number: 106203
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1966.
First edition of the Shepherd’s breakthrough novel; the basis of Bob Clark’s timeless classic 1983 Christmas marathon film A Christmas Story, which Shepherd himself narrated. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to the founder of Playboy Magazine, Hugh Hefner in the year of publication, “To Hef -.- The Mother of us all! by george!! Jean Shepherd 1966 Oct.” Hefner not only urged Shepherd to write down his personal memoirs capturing his youth in Indiana, but published seven chapters of the present volume in Playboy between 1964 and 1966. From Hefner’s library with his bookplate. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Smith. Pristine and with the utmost provenance.
A bestseller at the time of its publication, Shepherd's most important published work, In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, inspired two films; A Christmas Story (1983) and My Summer Story (1994), both of which Shepherd narrated. Released on November 18th 1983, A Christmas Story earned two Canadian Genie Awards in 1984 and in 2012 was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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