Judge Me Not by John D. MacDonald, Gold Medal 186 1951 1st Edition PBO
Beautiful Barye Phillips Good Girl art cover
Fine minus. Spine is tight, pages supple but it's an old binding with notoriously cheap glue - care must be used in handling, a display copy not for vigorous reading. Super glossy with great color. No creasing to the front cover, one small crease to the back bottom corner. Light edgewear/bindery chipping to the spine tips. Lamination fully intact. A very nice looking copy.
“Judge Me Not,” by John D. MacDonald is the
story of a man living below his potential in a small town held lightly
in the grip of corruption by local bosses. Teed Morrow, clearly a
MacDonald name, is the assistant to the newly hired straight-shooting
city manager, Powell Dennison, whose goal is to break the grip of
corruption. The bosses seem to think Teed is the weak link in stopping
Dennison. It’s a compliment to MacDonald that you don’t like Teed as the
hero, at least for a good way into the story. There’s believable
characters throughout, including the woman Teed’s having an affair with.
John D. MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pa, and
educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Syracuse and Harvard,
where he took an MBA in 1939. During WW2, he rose to the rank of
Colonel, and while serving in the Army and in the Far East, sent a short
story to his wife for sale, successfully. He served in the Office of
Strategic Services (O.S.S.) in the China-Burma-India Theater of
Operations. After the war, he decided to try writing for a year, to see
if he could make a living. Over 500 short stories and 70 novels
resulted, including 21 Travis McGee novels.
Following
complications of an earlier heart bypass operation, MacDonald slipped
into a coma on December 10 and died at age 70, on December 28, 1986, in
St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was survived by his wife
Dorothy (1911-1989) and a son, Maynard.
In the years since his
death MacDonald has been praised by authors as diverse as Stephen King,
Spider Robinson, Jimmy Buffett, Kingsley Amis and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr..
Thirty-three years after his passing the Travis McGee novels are still
in print.