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
MCPHEE, John. A Sense of Where You Are. A Profile of William Warren Bradley. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1965). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket.
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 by McPhee on the half title: "For Matthew Young, all best—John McPhee," and additionally signed on the title page by Bradley.
New Yorker staff writer John McPhee, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, has been called the "great antistylist," a legendary journalist whose "informal, declaratory, almost inelegant tone" influenced a generation of writers "to shape words and sentences precisely" (New York Times). 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. With 27 photogravure plates of Bradley printed at rear. Early bookseller sticker affixed to dust jacket rear panel.
Book fine, dust jacket with rubbing to front flap fold, near-fine. A most desirable copy signed by both the author and Bradley.