THE SHADOW CATCHER
New York, N.Y. Simon & Schuster, 2007. Sketches by the Author. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. ASSOCIATION COPY SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page & facing page (adding a sketch of her book & crossed arrows for "The Four Corners")...as well as on the rear pastedown; tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gilt lettering on spine over deep blue boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with photograph of snow-capped mountains, 336 pages. Very Fine / Fine. Item #8505
ISBN: 9780743265201
Marianne Wiggins (born 1947) is an American author. According to The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, she writes with "a bold intelligence and an ear for hidden comedy." She has won a Whiting Award, an National Endowment for the Arts award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2004 for her novel Evidence of Things Unseen.--Wiki adapted.
SIGNED & INSCRIBED with enthusiasm & SKETCHES to a good FRIEND.
The Shadow Catcher is "a dual narrative threading early life of photographer Edward Curtis [1868 – 1952] and current life of 'Marianne Wiggins.'" Curtis remains a highly important ethnographic and photographic recorder of native Americans and the Far West.
EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean copy in comparable dust jacket (unclipped). Apart from the Author's enthusiastic and personal entries (for which we hope that the former recipient remains Well since his copy has become available), there are no stray marks.
Price: $75.00