The Great Santini.

CONROY, Pat.

$750.00

Item Number: 117671

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page, “To Virginia Norwood, Merry Christmas to Betty B’s sister and Jean’s aunt (Conroy has crossed this out) Please count the silver when brother Mike comes over for Christmas dinner Pat Conroy Dec. 25, 1979.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor.

“Reading Pat Conroy is like watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel" (Houston Chronicle). The Great Santini was made into the film written and directed by Lewis John Carlino, starring Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, and Michael O'Keefe.