Taylor, Samuel

AVANTI! OR A VERY UNCOMPLICATED GIRL [Signed]

New York: Random House, 1968. First Printing. Octavo, 139 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Spine is faded to brown with white titling. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar cover, price uncut "$4.50", has small tears to the edges, and scuffing to surfaces. Boards have light age toning to spine ends, a small stain to the front joint edge, and bumping to corners. Textblock has a small stain to the rear pastedown, and light shelving wear throughout. Inscribed "For Susan and Neil Sheehan- [illegible..]", dated "East Blue Hill Maine August, 1970" and signed by Samuel Taylor on the title page. Shelved in Room F.

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Special Collections - Upstairs

Price: $125

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.