Ship of Fools

Boston: Little, Brown, (1962).

Price: $400.00

Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a short tear, and a finger puncture in the front gutter. Signed by the author on the half-title. Basis for the 1965 Stanley Kramer-directed film featuring a wonderful cast including Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, and Michael Dunn, among others. The film won a couple of Oscars, and was nominated for several more including Best Picture. A nice copy of the author's best known work.

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Item #108263 Ship of Fools. Katherine Anne PORTER.

Katherine Anne Porter
birth name: Katherine Anne Porter
born: 5/15/1890
died: 9/18/1980
nationality: USA

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American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of texture and complexity of character delineations usually achieved only in the novel. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore