From the Terrace

New York: Random House, (1958).

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Hardcover. First edition. Spine a bit faded, front hinge neatly repaired thus very good in a price-clipped, very good plus (and probably supplied) dustwrapper with a scrape on the front flap. Nicely Inscribed by the author to William and Frances Lord: "To the good Lord up above – 77th Street – and Lady Frances, from their contented customer, John O'Hara. 28 Dec '58." The Lords were high society folks in the same social circle as O'Hara and James Forrestal, who served as the first U.S. Secretary of Defense and whom biographer Matthew Broccoli pointed out shared a striking resemblance to the main character of this novel. An interesting association.

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Item #29944 From the Terrace. John O'HARA.
From the Terrace
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From the Terrace

John O'Hara
birth name: John Henry O'Hara
born: 1/31/1905
died: 4/11/1970
nationality: USA

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American novelist and short-story writer whose sparingly styled fiction stands as a social history of upwardly mobile Americans from the 1920s through the 1940s. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore