Description
A signed first edition, first printing of A Thousand Days by Arthur Schlesinger. Octavo, xiv, 1087pp. Blue cloth, title printed on spine and front cover, gilt over red. Stated “first printing” on copyright page. Bookplate from noted radio announcer George Sanders. Publishers first state dust jacket, near fine, with $9.00 price on front flap, light wear along bottom edge, exceptionally bright colors on front cover and spine. Signed on front cover by author: “For George Sanders with best wishes, Arthur Schlesinger Jr.”
A Thousand Days won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1966.