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Winston Groom – Forrest Gump – First Edition 1994
£150.00
First edition, first printing. One of seven hundred copies printed for Xmas 1994. This is a fine copy. The boards, quarter-bound in black cloth and silver, metallic paper are embossed in black with the publishers logo. The text blocks are bright and clean and the internals crisp; this copy is free from previous owners ink.
The title character retells adventures ranging from shrimp boating and ping pong championships, to thinking about his childhood love, as he bumbles his way through American history, with everything from the Vietnam War to college football becoming part of the story. Adapted into the 1994 film starring Tom Hanks as the title character.
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First edition, first printing. One of seven hundred copies printed for Xmas 1994. This is a fine copy. The boards, quarter-bound in black cloth and silver, metallic paper are embossed in black with the publishers logo. The text blocks are bright and clean and the internals crisp; this copy is free from previous owners ink.
The title character retells adventures ranging from shrimp boating and ping pong championships, to thinking about his childhood love, as he bumbles his way through American history, with everything from the Vietnam War to college football becoming part of the story. Adapted into the 1994 film starring Tom Hanks as the title character.
