INSCRIBED by Jim Michener
James A. Michener, First Citizen of the Republic of Letters, A Tribute by His Writing Colleagues.
New York: Authors League Fund, [n.d., 1990].
Price: $500.00
About the item
Jill Krementz [photographer]. First edition, one of 500 copies. 53 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full dark green leather boards, copper lettering on front board and spine; a fine copy. Groseclose F135.
Item #351741
A nice Festschrift collecting short tributes is by 28 writing colleagues of Michener, among them Judy Bloom, Carl Sagan, Arthur Miller, A. Grove Day and others.
Inscribed by Michener on the front flyleaf, “N.Y. N.Y. 12 X 90 To Sylvia Lyons, one of the really dear friends. Thanks for coming. Jim Michener”
Sylvia Lyons was the widow of Leonard Lyons (1906-1976), who for forty years wrote a nationally syndicated column, "The Lyons Den", for the New York Post.
