A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound (Signed First Edition)

New York: Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 2004. First edition. First printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth spine over illustrated paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher s original price intact on jacket flap ($15.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean unread copy. Oblong quarto, 40 pages. This illustrated children's book, with artwork by Tatjana Hauptmann, was adapted from a fictional bedtime story embedded in Irving s 1998 novel "A Widow for One Year," where it first appeared as a short story told by the protagonist s father. This was Irving s first published work for children; his earlier novels include The World According to Garp (1978), which won the National Book Award, and The Cider House Rules (1985), which was adapted into an Academy Award winning film. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (name only).