New York: Random House. VERY GOOD in jacket. Text-block appears clean. Binding sound. Jacket bright with minor edgewear.. 1957. First Edition. 2nd printing (stated). SIGNED directly to 1/2 title page by James Michener, not to bookplate or tipped-in page and not inscribed. Just Michener's signature. Beige cloth hardcover with gilt lettering. Dust jacket now protected in clear plastic BRODART cover. Original price to front endflap. Maps to endpapers. 290pp. Index.

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James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home . Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety. A. Grove Day was a prolific author, teacher, and scholar of Hawaii and the South Pacific who wrote or edited more than fifty books. Born in Philadelphia and educated at Stanford University, where he befriended John Steinbeck, Day was also one of the co-founders of Pacific Science: A Quarterly Devoted to the Biological and Physical Sciences of the Pacific Region . Many of his works, including Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii and Best South Sea Stories, remain local bestsellers in Hawaii. He died in 1994 at the age of eighty-nine.

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Bookseller: Aldersgate Books Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2629275
Title: Rascals in Paradise (SIGNED).
Author: Michener, James A with A. Grove Day
Book Condition: Used - VERY GOOD in jacket. Text-block appears clean. Binding sound. Jacket bright with minor edgewear.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Random House
Keywords: Modern Firsts
Bookseller catalogs: Modern Firsts;

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