Perin, Constance

EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE: SOCIAL ORDER AND LAND USE IN AMERICA [Signed]

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. First Edition. Octavo, xv, 291 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. In full purple cloth binding with red and gold titling to spine. Jacket is purple with white and red lettering, titling on spine sunned to orange. Jacket is wrapped in an archival mylar sleeve. Jacket is scuffed along the joints and fore edges, with light wrinkling at the head and tail. Moderate sunning to spine. Foxing on the jacket flaps. Price unclipped: "$12.95". Boards show light rubbing along edges. Faint scrape on front board. Mild sunning to top board edges. Text block is lightly foxed along the top edge. Interior clean. Inscribed to Susan and Neil Sheehan by Perin on the title page: "For Susan and Neil, / with thanks for being there! / Love, Connie / January 1977". Shelved in Room X.

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Special Collections

Price: $60

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.