O'HARA, JOHN. Appointment in Samarra. NY: Harcourt, Brace [1934]. 8vo, original black cloth, spotted, pictorial dust jacket (a bit chipped at ends of spine and at top edges of front and back panels). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with erratum slip following title-page), FIRST ISSUE of the jacket (with "Recent Fiction" on back panel), PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To Lorraine MacLear -- in Bullock's Wilshire window? John O'Hara. Sept. 2?, 1934, New York." An uncommon book inscribed. O'Hara was once termed (in Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors, 1942) "the voice of the hangover generation."

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O'HARA, JOHN. Appointment in Samarra. NY: Harcourt, Brace [1934]. 8vo, original black cloth, spotted, pictorial dust jacket (a bit chipped at ends of spine and at top edges of front and back panels). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with erratum slip following title-page), FIRST ISSUE of the jacket (with "Recent Fiction" on back panel), PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To Lorraine MacLear -- in Bullock's Wilshire window? John O'Hara. Sept. 2?, 1934, New York." An uncommon book inscribed. O'Hara was once termed (in Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors, 1942) "the voice of the hangover generation."