[Signed] [First Edition] HORSE AND BUGGY WEST: A BOYHOOD...

Octavo, ix, 302 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Tan pictorial spine with green and brown titling. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar cover, price uncut "$5.95", has minor denting to the top corners of the front flap, and light age toning and foxing to edges. Boards have foxing to spine and edges. Textblock has light foxing scattered throughout and to edges. Inscribed "For Susan and Neil Sheehan with all [illegible] best!" and signed by Jack O'Connor on the front fly leaf. Shelved in Room A. Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936-2021) and Susan Sheehan (born 1937) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie", while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine's editorial and artistic community. 1412432. Special Collections - Upstairs.

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