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A Sense of Where You Are
NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1965). The first book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a profile of former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley done at the time when Bradley was a Princeton basketball player and Rhodes scholar. A portion of this book first appeared as a "Profile" in The New Yorker, where McPhee's prose in the 1960s and 1970s helped elevate nonfiction writing to the realm of literary art. Owner name and date (1965) front flyleaf; near fine in a very good, spine-faded dust jacket with a small chip threatening at the upper front edge. Signed by the author on the title page. [#024901] SOLD

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