GET SHORTY - Rare Fine Set: Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing With Souvenir Bookplate: Signed And Inscribed by Elmore Leonard - ONLY SIGNED SET ONLINE

Leonard, Elmore

ISBN 10: 0385301413 / ISBN 13: 9780385301411

Published by New York City, NY: Delacorte Press, 1990, 1990

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 292 pages. Published in 1990. Rare Elmore Leonard collectible set. A fine copy of "Get Shorty" First Hardcover Edition/First Printing with a pristine Souvenir Bookplate, signed and inscribed by Elmore Leonard. The author's "Hollywood" novel. One of Elmore Leonard's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Elmore Leonard's "Get Shorty". Classic Elmore Leonard. "While other people write 'crime fiction', Leonard has come up with a masterly social comedy that happens to be about criminals and other fast operators. The best parts move along so briskly you almost forget there's somebody with a firm control over the story" (Ron Hogan). "The prose, as expected from Leonard, is perfect. In 292 pages, there's not a word that doesn't belong exactly where he's placed it. Offers a Master Class in how to write a novel" (Publishers Weekly). Shortly after his death in 2013, Elmore Leonard was posthumously honored by the Library of America with four volumes collecting his oeuvre. Normally, LOA waits for a decent, sometimes very long, interval before including any writer in its canon. But in Leonard's case, they could not wait to honor the "laconic Master of crime fiction". The basis of the now-classic film by Barry Sonnenfeld, with Gene Hackman, John Travolta, Danny de Vito, and Rene Russo in career-peak performances. An absolute "must-have" title for Elmore Leonard collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Elmore Leonard. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It comes with a pristine 5 X 4 inch loose Souvenir Bookplate that is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed and inscribed in black ink-pen by the author: "I try to leave out the parts that people skip. Elmore Leonard". Which, in one line and in his own hand, neatly sums up his artistic credo and writing practice. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy (with signed and inscribed Souvenir Bookplate) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: This is the only Souvenir Bookplate available anywhere. Copies of the book available online have serious flaws, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. A rare signed set thus. One of the finest American mystery writers of our time. A fine collectible set. ISBN 0385301413.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: GET SHORTY - Rare Fine Set: Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing With Souvenir Bookplate: Signed And Inscribed by Elmore Leonard - ONLY SIGNED SET ONLINE
• Publisher: New York City, NY: Delacorte Press, 1990
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385301413
• ISBN 13: 9780385301411
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

Chili Palmer, a Miami loanshark, and Harry Zimm, a film producer in debt, become reluctant partners as they become embroiled in the seductive but deadly Hollywood scene

Reviews

Taking his latest fictive turn in Hollywood, Leonard, whose oeuvre includes screenplays as well as such bestselling novels as Glitz and Freaky Deaky , adds insider knowledge to his signature humor in this roundly satisfying behind-the-scenes tour of filmdom. Slightly disaffected Chili Palmer, a small-time loan shark with big-time style, is a vintage Leonard hero. Following a bad debt from Miami to Las Vegas and on to Beverly Hills, Chili hooks up with Harry Zimm, once a leading director of grade-B horror flicks, now trying to make a comeback. While succumbing to the siren call of celluloid, Chili also narrows in on the bad debt, in the process running up against a sharp-dressing hood with whose money Harry has played too loose. In Leonard's seamless handling, the complex plot flows through twists of revenge, murder and romance, as Chili, his authentic cool making a mark in the capital of sham ("Don't talk when you don't have to" is his very un-Hollywood motto), cagily gets it together with Karen Flores, Harry's former lover and featured star. A perfect resolution puts punch in the title and will keep readers smiling for days. Chili and his story are Leonard's best yet. First serial rights to Rolling Stone; BOMC and QPB selections; major ad/promo, author tour.
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