Reston, James

SKETCHES IN THE SAND [Signed]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xv, 479, x pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Green spine with orange and yellow lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar cover, price uncut "$7.95", has minor chipping and tears to the spine head/tail and corners. Boards have bumping to spine head/tail and corners, and light scuffing throughout. Textblock has light wear to edges. Inscribed "For Susan and Neil Sheehan, [illegible]" dated "Christmas, 1967" and signed by James Reston on the front free end page. Shelved in Room F.

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Special Collections - Upstairs

Price: $80

NOTES

James "Scotty" Barrett Reston (1909-1995) was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with The New York Times. Reston won the Pulitzer Prize twice. The first was in 1945, for his coverage of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference and he received the second award in 1957 for his national correspondence.

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.