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signed first edition
1962 · New York
by McKenna, Richard
New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Scarce inscribed first printing of this gunboat epic set in 1920s China, adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Steve McQueen. Richard McKenna was well-versed in colonial gunboat diplomacy: he served in the US Navy for 22 years, two of which were spent aboard a gunboat on the Yangtze. He did not put pen to paper for THE SAND PEBBLES, inspired by his experiences, until age 46, but the time it had spent percolating was evidently valuable: it earned the coveted Harper Prize in 1962, and was optioned for film to the tune of $200,000. Inscribed copies of THE SAND PEBBLES are quite (truncated)
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