RICHARD FORD. — Independence Day. A novel. (SIGNED)

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 451pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine and with the author's initials gold-stamped to the upper board. A touch of bruising to the backstrip ends, and the tips of two corners very gently bumped. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper (the correct first state, with no prize blurb and with a photograph of the author on the rear panel), with a trace of corresponding creasing to the spine panel ends and a hint of further light edgewear, and a single tiny closed tear. The second volume of the author's celebrated 'Frank Bascombe' series; winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (the first novel to win both awards in the same year)., Very Good, Very Good