The Last Shaft
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, (1975).
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Hardcover. First edition, not published in the U.S. Boards a little soiled, very good or better in tattered and tape repaired, poor dustwrapper. The Dedication Copy, from the dedicatee's personal library and Signed by the author: "Ernest Tidyman 3 February 1975" beneath the printed dedication which reads: "for Judith Loth, Who Knew Him Well." The recipient, Judy Oppenheimer Loth, a writer possibly best-known for her biography of Shirley Jackson, had a continuing relationship with Tidyman, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay for *The French Connection*. An inexplicably uncommon title, *OCLC* locates ten copies, all but one in the U.K.
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