Half of Paradise, James Lee Burke. Signed First Edition.

Half of Paradise, James Lee Burke First edition, first printing of Burke's debut novel, signed by the author to the title page. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. Publisher's original brown cloth boards, dark brown spine label with titles stamped in white; pp. (viii), 312. A near fine copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square, minimal wear to boards, internally clean. Jacket show slight shelfwear and rubbing to extremities with a touch of sunning to spine, protected in archival mylar.