Walter Winchell.

HERR, Michael.

$475.00

Item Number: 120899

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

First edition of this novel by the author of Dispatches. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Jim, Best wishes Michael Herr 26 Feb 93.” Additionally signed three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel, on the half-title page, and on the rear panel of the jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.

A streamlined hybrid of novel and screenplay, Walter Winchell tells the story of the failed vaudevillian who became this country's most influential gossip columnist and wizard of the vicarious. Brilliant . . . full of punchy dialogue, colorful people and places and period movie devices . . . Herr's hybrid is perfect" (Chicago Tribune),