In the Unlikely Event.

BLUME, Judy.

$200.00

Item Number: 144301

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

First edition of one of only four adult books written in Blume’s career. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Judy Blume. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kelly Blair.

In The Unlikely Event follows the story of fifteen-year-old Miri Ammerman as she copes with a series of unexpected and unexplained airplane crashes that occur in her own backyard. The novel is based on three actual plane crashes that took place in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Blume's hometown, over the course of 58 days between 1951 and 1952.