Hannibal Hooker: His Death and Adventures (Only Signed of All of author's books)

William Harlan Hale

Published by Random House, New York, 1939

About this Item

Stated First Printing, First Edition. Flat-signed on the first front end paper. Once listed this will be the Only signed copy of this title for sale on the Internet. It will also be, as far as my search of all the book sites, the Only signed copy of any of the author's books for sale on the Internet. That's unusual! You can read about the author below. He had quite an impressive career. The book is in very nice shape. Check out the covers in the photos. The edges and corners look great. The page edges are clean (two specks on middle edge). The top page edge is pink, may have been red. The book is square and very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages and nicely tight covers. The pages are exceptionally clean. Scrolling through, I didn't see any soiling. There are no placeholder creases. A handful of tips of top and bottom corners got folded down and I flattened them out. There are small creases there now. There's a patch of foxing off the outer edge of the title page, some more on the copyright page and on the front and rear inside cover. I didn't see any other foxing anywhere else, none in the text. There are no markings in the book. No attachments. And with the exception of the author's signature, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. This was the author's first novel and he was not at a loss for words. 479 pages. William Harlan Hale was born in New York City. He attended Riverdale Country School. Hale was considered "one of Yale's brightest of bright young men" in his youth, and co-founded the campus magazine Harkness Hoot. He was associate editor of Vanity Fair in 1932, a columnist for The Washington Post in 1933-34, and editorial associate at Fortune from 1934 to 1936. His first book was Challenge to Defeat: Goethe's World and Spengler's Century (1932). In 1938, he published a novel, titled Hannibal Hooker. He also wrote an adventure novel, A Yank in the RAF (1940). In an historical vein, Hale wrote a popular history of America, The March of Freedom (1946) and a biography of Horace Greeley, Horace Greeley, Voice of the People (1950). In World War II, Hale served in Army intelligence (Office of War Information, Psychological Warfare Branch of the Allied Expeditionary Force, writing memoranda on German public opinion), and worked again for military intelligence from 1948 to 1949. Hale worked as a journalist in Austria from 1950 to 1953. He was editor of The New Republic (1946-47), the Reporter, and Horizon (1958). He was the author of The Horizon Book of Ancient Greece (1965) and The Horizon Book of Eating and Drinking Through the Ages (1968). Articles for American Heritage formed the basis for his Innocence Abroad (1958). Hale's papers are in the Yale University Library.'. Seller Inventory # 003722

Bibliographic Details

Title: Hannibal Hooker: His Death and Adventures (...

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 1939

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition