First Edition. With the complete number line "P 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" on the copyright page as required. "This is a love story.It is true. It has a happy ending.It is a story about a man and a woman, about breast cancer and mastectomy and recovery. It is about courage and self control, about unity, about compassion, about Joan Parker and her husband and their sons. It is about family and triumph and pervading tenderness. It is about love." Signed with Parker's usual "RBP" fourish on the title page. Cleanly bound in finely woven beige cloth stamped in light blue on the spine. Exceptionally clean and tight throughout; apparently unread. Signed by Robert Parker with his "RBP" flourish on the title page. In an attractive dustjacket printed in purple with white and blue lettering; with the price of $7.95 at the top of the inside front flap of the dustjacket. With a scarce photo of the Parker family in 1978 on the rear panel of the dustjacket: Robert, Joan, and their two sons. A very handsome dustjacket with light wear to the top and bottom of the spine ends and the corners. A signed, collectible copy of their literary collaboration chronicling their successful battle against Joan's breast cancer. First Edition. With the complete number line "P 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" on the copyright page as required.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Three Weeks in Spring. (Signed.)
Publisher: Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1978.
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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