Advise and Consent
A Novel of Washington Politics
by Allen Drury
 
 
Signed first edition, early printing
in original dust jacket


New York: Doubleday, 1959. 616 pp. First edition, early printing. (No "First Edition" statement on copyright page. Jacket has second state sans-serif font on spine panel but no mention of Pulitzer Prize.) Signed by Drury on front end paper in blue ink. Very Good hardcover in Good dust jacket. Clean pages. Worn bookplate on front end paper, toning to top edge of cloth. Jacket worn and rubbed along edges, a bit chipped at extremities. tear in the bottom of the front panel, sticker wear near foot, toning to spine panel, price intact ($5.75). Jacket is mylar-protected.

Winner of the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Uncommon signed. A novel of Cold War espionage and scandal in Washington D.C. politics. Basis of a 1962 Otto Preminger film.