Stranger Come Home.
First Edition of Stranger Come Home; Warmly Inscribed by William Shirer
Stranger Come Home.
SHIRER, William L.
$850.00
Item Number: 147679
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954.
First edition of the author’s classic first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “To Nelia Gardner White -in admiration Bill Shirer 1954.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Vivian Berman. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Stranger Come Home is about an American foreign correspondent who returns home in the early 1950's and finds a demagogue U.S. Senator accusing left-leaning individuals of Communist ties.