THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE, INSCRIBED BY JOHN IRVING
IRVING, John. The Hotel New Hampshire. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1981). Octavo, original half white cloth, original dust jacket.
First trade edition, boldly inscribed in blue ink across the entire half title: "To S——, John Irving."
"A startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with a Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice" (Time). Published the same year in a signed limited edition of 550 copies. Small embossed stamp of the recipient above Irving's signature.
A fine inscribed copy.