Description
Signed first edition of In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez by Art Davidson, inscribed to a former teacher.
Octavo, xvi, 333pp. Black hardcover, title in black on red cloth spine. Full number line listed on copyright page. Solid text block, top edge lightly faded, a near fine copy. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $19.95 retail price on front flap, shelf worn, near fine.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “March 1999 / John, From your class room at Fountain Valley to writing about this damnable oil spill… what a journey it’s been. Thanks for giving me a love of language and this crazy notion that I might be able to write. / Warmest regards / Art.”
On March 24, 1989, an Exxon Shipping Company oil tanker struck Prince William Sound’s Bligh Reef and spilled over 10 million gallons of crude oil into the sound. The remote location made the cleanup process lengthy and challenging. The spill led to the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which specified the liability of future oil spills and added regulations for damages and cleanups.
