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FIRST EDITION OF SIX DAYS OF THE CONDOR, WARMLY INSCRIBED AT LENGTH BY JAMES GRADY

GRADY, James. Six Days of the Condor. New York: W.W. Norton, (1974). Octavo, original half red cloth, original dust jacket. 

First edition of Grady’s first novel, presentation copy, inscribed, “To Scott Harty,” above the dedication and continued below, “And for you, a first edition of this author’s feeble first steps into novel writing, steps taken too many years before he was lucky enough to know John Lang. James Grady, Washington, D.C. 1991. Happy Birthday.”

When James Grady learned his first novel Six Days of the Condor would be published, he was living in a converted garage in Missoula, Montana. Later that same year he moved to Washington, D.C. where he investigated the world that inspired his political thriller while working for journalist Jack Anderson, and in 1975 Grady’s novel became the basis for the film Three Days of the Condor, starring Robert Redford. Grady’s warm inscription to Scott Harty makes reference to a character Grady would ultimately develop into the protagonist of his eleventh novel Thunder, published in 1994. A fine copy.