Smith Patrick 1927 2014 (2 results)

PAPERBACK, very good, only slight wear, small indentation on rear cover into last few pages, minor. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author's SON: to recipient with first name only : Enjoy Patrick D. Smith, Jr. 3-30-17. SMITH, PATRICK D. Angel City. Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, Inc., 2012, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line ending with 1, 181pp., . Made into a TV movie in 1980. - Author was born in Mississippi and moved to Florida in 1966 where he became a much-honored local novelist and travel writer. - "The migrant labor camps in Florida (and elsewhere) have been waiting many years for a hurricane of a novel like Angel City" (Erskine Caldwell). ISBN 9781561645671.

First edition (as stated upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [6], 248 pages. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 13.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed with shallow chips and short tears at edges; spine panel sunned to a dark blue; some moisture staining mostly evident to blank verso and at front flap's top left; foxing to white flaps; front flap is nor price-clipped; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Aquamarine boards and spine with some foxing; light scuffing and bumping at spine ends and board corner tips. Toning/foxing to text block edges; several small stains to fore-edge as well. Toning/foxing to endpapers; fingerprint soiling to front free endpaper; a few scattered spots of soiling and foxing to text leaves which, overall, remain clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy in a very good- dust jacket. Author's warm seven-line ink inscription "For Patty Brown, a very | beautiful girl, and not | only that, but very | charming too, with best | wishes, | Pat | March 25, 1953" on the front free endpaper. Scarce first novel by Mississippi author Patrick D. Smith who graduated from Ole Miss in 1947 and supposedly wrote the novel within a ten day span in 1950 only to shelve it for two years until showing it to a former professor who encouraged him to seek a publisher. Little, Brown published the book in 1953 leading to Smith's successful career as a novelist during which he was nominated thrice for the Pulitzer Prize and was awarded with a 1999 induction to the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.