Traver, Robert

TROUT MAGIC [Signed]

New York: Crown Publishers, 1974. First Edition. Octavo, [6], 216 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. In orange cloth quarter binding with black paper boards. Jacket is off-white with black titling and a pictorial cover, wrapped in an archival mylar sleeve. Jacket is moderately age toned, somewhat heavier along the top edges, with mild scuffing to covers. Shallow wrinkling and chipping to head of spine. Price unclipped: "$7.50". Boards show light shelving wear, with faint scuffs to covers and light crinkling at the head and tail. Moderate sunning along top board edges, lighter along bottom edges. Moderate age toning to text block edges. Interior clean. Inscribed by Traver, using his real name John Voelker, to Susan and Neil Sheehan in blue marker on front flyleaf: "To Susan and Neil Sheehan / with my deepest sympathy and best wishes for your early recovery from the woes and tribulations of 1974. / John Voelker (Robert Traver) / Ishpeming / Christmas 1974". Shelved in Room F.

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Special Collections - Upstairs

Price: $200

NOTES

Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936–2021) and Susan Sheehan (born 1937) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie", while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine’s editorial and artistic community.