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Fine/Near
fine. First printing (Numberline). Tight, clean, crisp, square, flat
and sharp book in lightly wrinkled DJ. Free mylar sleeve. No mention of the Pulitzer Prize [as expected] she won in 1995 for this book: the DJ is first state as well.
Warmly inscribed "To Martha and Michael: a tribute to one man who does ask for directions" and signed with her full name.
There
are extremely few inscribed copies available on the market, though many
signed, and often described as "inscribed" with simply "to _____" as one would expect from a signing engagement.
This is quite possibly an association copy--a book with a
similarly personable inscription is being offered with a sheaf of
emails demonstrating the association. As this was a thrift store find,
we have no such provenance. We found a Martha and Michael was mentioned
in an obituary which also mentioned Doris Goodwin (without the middle
name, as would be fitting a memorial to another) however we have no way
of knowing if there is any true connection here, and mention it only
because a handful of hits were found by Google (which includes many
genealogical sites).
There are a number of fine universities and colleges in this area which would be inclined to host Goodwin on a book tour, speaking tour, and even offer her visiting professorships. Possibilities ... the book is inscribed, that's all we know. At this writing there are a handful of copies inscribed to a couple with a short message, again, the sort that one expects in a book signing (best wishes, etc). This is the only inscription we found that is personal.
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