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Burning the Days: Recollection. Signed copy.
by SALTER, James
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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About This Item
New York: Random House, (1997). First edition, this copy signed in ink by Salter on a tipped in leaf following the ffep. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), x, [4], [1] - 365, & [4] pages. Publisher's black-lettered white paper over boards, in translucent, pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with slight edge wear & hint of creasing.
James Salter (born James Arnold Horowitz), who passed away in 2015, was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1989 & the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story in 2012. His "Recollection" includes substantial treatment of his "second life" as a writer.
"Burning the Days captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, satisfying his father's wishes, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most evocative pages ever written about flying, Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, scenes that are balanced by haunting pages of love and a young man's passion for women ..." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.
Synopsis
James Salter is the author of A Sport and a Pastime (now in Modern Library), Light Years, The Hunters, Solo Faces, and Dusk and Other Stories, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988. He lives in Colorado and Long Island. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1564
- Title
- Burning the Days: Recollection. Signed copy.
- Author
- SALTER, James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1997)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- James Salter, Signed, Aviation, West Point, Fighter Pilot, Korean War, Writing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History; Biography, Autobiography; Signed; Aviation;
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