The Great Santini (SIGNED BY PAT CONROY & THE GREAT SANTINI. FIRST EDITION.)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. Signed, First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8.5" x 6" x 1.75. Wendell Minor (Jacket design). Signed by the author and "The Great Santini. SIGNED BY BOTH PAT CONROY AND THE GREAT SANTINI. FIRST EDITION, 1976. Signature of Donald Conroy, Col. USMC Ret., Santini, on the flytitle page in black ink. Signed by author Pat Conroy on the title page, also in black ink. Hardcover. Bound in bright orange linen cloth, covers are plain with black lettering stamped on the spine. Black top stain. Endpapers are black. 536 pp. Illustrated dust jacket is in off white, brown, green and black color tones with black lettering on the cover and spine. Protected by a mylar cover. <br><br>EXERPT FROM THE DUST JACKET: "With this novel, his first, Pat Conroy, author of The Water is Wide, takes us into the family life of a fighter pilot. Bull Meecham is the epitome of the Marine officer - as a tough disciplinarian at home as at the base. Rebellion, or even difference of opinion, is not tolerated. Objections are met with the statement 'The Great Santini has spoken.' His attempts to stand up for himself or his mother and sister are contemptuously dismissed. His feelings for his father are a mixture of hate and fear, reluctant pride in his prowess, and unacknowledged love. The Marine Corps and flying ae the most important things in Bull's life. Next come his image as a tough guy, the Catholic Church, his old buddies, his wife and children. His sons are destined to become Marine pilots, his daughters to provide their husbands (Marines, naturally) with a good home and more fodder for the Corps. [...] This is the story of a boy's determination to be himself, whatever that may be. It is violent, shocking, funny, moving, and overwhelmingly real. From the early pages, with Bull's wife and children waiting at the airport to welcome the Great Santini back into their midst, to the bittersweet ending, the reader's interest and emotions are fixed upon the fluctuating fortunes of the Meecham family." <br><br>CONDITION: This book is in quite nice condition. Due to small to moderate stain at the foot of pages 109 to 246, (which can be seen at the foot), the book itself is VG, (else fine). The marking does not in anyway compromise the text or come in proximity to it. Cover and binding is bright and handsome. Binding is tight and solid. Completely unmarked except for signatures. The dust jacket is in fine, beautiful condition. Full refund if not satisfied.