Advise And Consent: A Novel Of Washington Politics Drury, Allen

Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, USA, 1959. Early Printing, not the first printing, of the First (1st) Edition. The title page bears the date 1959 and the price ($5.75) is intact on the front flap. The first printing (which states "First Edition") had occurred on August 11, 1959, with a price of $5.75. Very Good+ in a Good Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full beige cloth, color uniform throughout, with bright blue and red title, etc., to spine, white endpapers unmarked except for prior owner's several name stamps and original bookseller's small label on the rear endpaper, all corners square corners and sharp, and the head of the spine wrinkled. The pictorial Dust Jacket has numerous chips at top and bottom of the front panel and spine, with tears discreetly closed from behind with archival (pH neutral) materials, and the original price ($5.75) intact on the front flap but another price has been written in black crayon. Jacket painting and pen and ink drawings by Arthur Shilstone, illustrator. See photos. 616 pages. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". This political fiction novel, the first and best known of the author's works, examined the inner workings of the U. S. Senate as it considered a controversial nominee for the office of Secretary of State, and the pressures applied to various senators, including the outing of a gay senator. The book was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was the basis for the 1962 film of the same name, directed by Otto Preminger and starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Burgess Meredith, Eddie Hodges, Paul Ford, George Grizzard, Inga Swenson, and Betty White. NOTE: The book weighs 880 grams / 1 lb., 15 oz., and when packaged, will require extra postage for international shipment or expedited delivery.