[light shelfwear, minor spotting to edges of text block, one-time owner's name stamped on front pastedown; jacket is very nice, slightly browned at spine but otherwise unblemished]. Set in Los Angeles, this light-hearted novel deals with a novelist-screenwriter and his three unruly teenage daughters. Like his protagonist, the author was a science-fiction writer and sometime-screenwriter (his most notable credit was THE TIME MACHINE, but he was also responsible for such lower-grade fare as MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS and THE LEECH WOMAN) -- and according to his IMdB data, he had (wait for it....) t... View More...
[tiny dent in top edge of front cover, slight fading to cloth along bottom edge of front cover, no other significant wear; jacket shows just a trace of surface wear, with a tiny faint stain near the upper left corner of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED (in a lovely calligraphic hand) and SIGNED by the author (and another) on the front endpaper, thus: "for Steve - Eydie / Merry Christmas / 1993 / from / Frank Military / and / David Douglas Duncan." The renowned photographer tells the story, in photos and text, of his beloved German shepherd, chronicling "with respect and affectio... View More...