Description
New York: Carol Southern Books, 1993. First Edition and First Printing. Octavo, designed jacket by Barbara de Wilde, gray and black boards with white spine imprinting, 292 pp. Fine book in Fine jacket. Epel’s study of how dreams inspire and otherwise influence the lives of authors. Included are 12 autographs by 8 of the authors interviewed by Epel; i.e., 4 of them have signed in two places. Three are on signed bookplates adhered in the appropriate chapter; a fourth bookplate autograph, that of Elmore Leonard, is mentioned in light pencil, but is not present. All 12 autographs are certified by a forensic handwriting examiner, and all 12 are graded 10 by that FHE – which does make a difference these days. Includes Isabel Allende (Twice), Richard Ford, Clive Barker (Twice), Anne Rice (Twice), Amy Tan (Twice), James W. Hall, Reynolds Price, Robert Stone. FHE certification of all is included. Author Naomi Epel interviewed a total of 27 contemporary writers about their dreams and their effect on what they wrote. Ships in stout protection, of course; insurance available on buyer’s request. -L-44
