Judgment Day by Farrell James: Signed (3 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First paperback edition. Very good in wrappers with the spine creased, pages browned. The third book in the Studs Lonigan trilogy, Inscribed by the author.

Inscribed association copies of 1940s reprints (first published in the 1930s). From the collection of famed sportswriter Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman. ALL THREE VOLUMES INSCRIBED TO ZIMMERMAN'S FATHER, CHARLES "SASHA" ZIMMERMAN, Farrell's "old friend and comrade." Charles S. Zimmerman (1897 - 1979) was a social activist and long-time official of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union [ILGWU]. He and Farrell were both active in the radical labor movement and members and of various socialist parties, including the Socialist Party of America. YOUNG LONIGAN and THE YOUNG MANHOOD OF STUDS LONIGAN are similarly bound 1948 first printings of the "Forum Books Edition" with new introductions by Farrell and are INSCRIBED, respectively, "For Sasha Zimmerman/ friend and comrade/ Jim Farrell/ July 23, 1977" and "To my old friend and/ comrade/ Sasha Zimmerman/ Jim Farrell/ July 23, 1977." JUDGMENT DAY is a 1945 second printing "Tower Books Edition" with pages brittle and darkened due to the use of low-quality wood pulp paper typical to many WWII publications. It's INSCRIBED, "For Sasha/ Zimmerman/ My old friend and/ comrade/ Jim Farrell/ July 23, 1977." TOGETHER WITH a June 15 1977 TYPED LETTER SIGNED by Farrell to Paul Zimmerman expressing his agreement with his views expressed in Zimmerman's "little piece in NEW AMERICA about Castro and Cuba," his own views on Castro colluding with Russia, and his belief that their end goal is the isolation of Latin America from the U.S., summing his thoughts up with "if Americans want Castro to like them - it would be better to give him the Azores than to send the Yankees to Havana." Farrell goes on to talk about meeting up after his return from a trip to France at longtime New York Post sportswriter Maury Allen's house together with Paul's father, Charles, the recipient of the inscriptions. Closing with "You undoubtedly know that your father is a very dear friend of mine, and an old comrade. Fraternally, Jim Farrell." (Judging by the date of the inscriptions, it seems safe to say that the men got together the following month on July 23, 1977.) Includes the original aged and stained envelope hand addressed by Farrell to Paul Zimmerman at the Sports Department of The New York Post. The first two books are very good with spine ends a little worn. The final volume is good only with text darkened, brittle paper showing edge tears, and head of spine beginning to fray. All three volumes lack dust jackets. Letter shows only minor wear and light creases from folding. It would be difficult to find another set of all three books inscribed to the same recipient and with similarly excellent provenance. Signed.…

First edition, early printing of Farrell's well-regarded trilogy. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and raised bands to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Jan 9/ 1950 For Bill Safire with best wishes Jim Farrell." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixonâs campaign in the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. Following Nixonâs 1968 victory, Safire served as a presidential speechwriter for both Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew. He was a frequent guest on Meet The Press, describing himself as the voice of âlibertarian conservativesâ and authored several political columns, most notably his weekly column âOn Languageâ which appeared in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death in 2009. He authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics (1968) and what Zimmer called Safireâs âmagnum opus,â Safireâs Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. In very good condition. With Safire's bookplate to the pastedown, his gilt initials to the front panel, and related newspaper clippings laid in at rear. Farrell wrote these three novels at a time of national despair. During the Great Depression, many of America's most gifted writers and artists aspired to create a single, powerful work of art that would fully expose the evils of capitalism and lead to a political and economic overhaul of the American system. Farrell chose to use his own personal knowledge of Irish-American life on the South Side of Chicago to create a portrait of an average American slowly destroyed by the "spiritual poverty" of his environment. Both Chicago and the Catholic Church of that era are described at length and faulted. Farrell describes Studs sympathetically as Studs slowly deteriorates, changing from a tough but fundamentally good-hearted, adventurous teenage boy to an embittered, physically shattered alcoholic. In 1979 Studs Lonigan was produced as a television miniseries starring Harry Hamlin, Colleen Dewhurst, Brad Dourif, Dan Shor, and Charles Durning. Production Designer Jan Scott won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Limited Series or a Special.…