A Civil Action [in First Issue Dust Jacket] by Harr, Jonathan - 1995

New York: Random House, 1995. A beautiful copy in the earliest dust jacket. Appears unread -- fresh and crisp. Fine condition in Brodart-protected, bright, shiny, Fine dust jacket. Not price clipped ($25.00). No chips. No tears. No creases. Clean, square, tight, unmarked. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Not a book club edition. This copy has the first state dust jacket (mostly beige with black corners and lettering). There is with no mention of "A Real-Life Legal Thriller" on this dust jacket and the John Grisham blurb "Compelling" does not appear at the top (both of those points appear only on the later brown pictorial dust jacket which was changed in an attempt to pump-up the book's sales). Endpaper maps. "First Edition" is so stated, with number line (23456789) on the copyright page (lacks the "1" as normal with Random House, in accordance with their convention for identifying first printings during this time period. See: GUIDE TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF FIRST EDITIONS by Bill McBride). Winner National Book Critics Circle Award. Captivating true story of the legal battle over a cluster of leukemia victims in Woburn, Massachusetts, a small town near Boston, where industrial chemicals poisoned the city's wells. Basis for the 1998 film of the same name, starring John Travolta and Robert Duvall. Bound in the original beige boards, with black cloth spine. Lettered in gold. From the dust jacket: "The lawyer had not wanted the case at first -- it was too big, too complicated, too risky. It concerned a cluster of childhood leukemia victims in a small town north of Boston where the city wells had been poisoned by industrial chemicals. Two of the nation's largest corporations, each with a plant near the wells, stood accused. Against his better judgment, the lawyer found himself drawn into the case. In this book, you'll meet the Harvard Law professor who told the lawyer that this case was worth a billion dollars, that it was the sort of lawsuit that would ring the alarm in corporate boardrooms across America. And you'll meet his adversaries, foremost among them a crafty old trial lawyer, chairman of the litigation department at one of the biggest and most feared law firms in Boston. The case turned into an epic struggle that took nine years of the lawyer's life. At the heart of the legal system, he was confronted by powerful and well-connected interests who would do anything to win. In the end, the struggle nearly cost the lawyer his sanity. He sacrificed everything -- home, friends, and reputation -- not for money, but for what he believed to be the truth. A CIVIL ACTION takes the reader deep into the inner workings of the law…". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 500pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.