The Sixties Catalogue

53 J u l y 2 0 2 0 First Edition Of John McPhee’s Profile Of Basketball Star And Future U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, Inscribed By McPhee And Signed By Bill Bradley 51. MCPHEE, John. A Sense of Where You Are. A Profile of William Warren Bradley. New York, 1965. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $4000. Click for more info First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s landmark first book, a profile of basketball All-American and future U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, inscribed: “For Barry Amis regards—John McPhee,” and additionally signed by Bill Bradley. McPhee’s encyclopedic legacy of over 25 books began with this 1965 publication of A Sense of Where You Are —a profile of Bill Bradley, then basketball All- American and future U.S. Senator—expanded from McPhee’s first published profile article for The New Yorker . Book about-fine, dust jacket near-fine with faint tape marks to flap corners and minor rubbing and toning to extremities. A most desirable inscribed and signed copy.