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INSCRIBED BY JAMES LEE BURKE, FIRST EDITION OF TO THE BRIGHT AND SHINING SUN

BURKE, James Lee. To the Bright and Shining Sun. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, (1970). Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket.

First edition of Burke’s second novel, warmly inscribed, “To Tony Arciero, from your friend in the gentlemanly art of bass fishing, Jim Burke, 7-4-73.”

James Lee Burke followed the critical success of his first novel Half of Paradise (1965), praised by the New York Times as “an exciting piece of writing,” with this powerful novel based in the hills of eastern Kentucky. In this early novel, critics already noted the distinctive quality of Burke’s writing. “The effect is one of lucid beauty, a staccato shorthand owing equal debt to Hemingway and Hammett” (Salon) Recipient remains unidentified. Owner bookstamp.

A fine copy, scarce inscribed.