Ironweed.
"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate": First Edition of William Kennedy’s Ironweed; Signed by Him
Ironweed.
KENNEDY, William.
$975.00
Item Number: 140796
New York: The Viking Press, 1983.
First edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Boldly signed William Kennedy on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a fine dust jacket, offsetting to the title page. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
William Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for Ironweed in 1984, and he wrote the screenplay for the 1987 film adaptation directed by Hector Babenco, which starred Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (for Nicholson) and Best Actress in a Leading Role (for Streep). Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
