New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel by this author, actor and screenwriter. "Nonagenarian Sidney Halverton recalls the summer of 1923, when he was invited on one of Edison's famous camping expeditions. Among the many other campers are Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and President Warren Harding. Halverton brings along his new girl friend, the "M.H." of the title, who abducts Harding and reveals herself to be the presumed dead Mata Hari. Edison, Ford, Firestone, and Halverton follow a slender trail of clues that bring them to a concluding confrontation at Niagara Falls. " While the events may be improbable, the friendship - and the camping trips - of those three…
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel by this author, actor and screenwriter. "Nonagenarian Sidney Halverton recalls the summer of 1923, when he was invited on one of Edison's famous camping expeditions. Among the many other campers are Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and President Warren Harding. Halverton brings along his new girl friend, the "M.H." of the title, who abducts Harding and reveals herself to be the presumed dead Mata Hari. Edison, Ford, Firestone, and Halverton follow a slender trail of clues that bring them to a concluding confrontation at Niagara Falls. " While the events may be improbable, the friendship - and the camping trips - of those three very different men was real, and the book is an extremely entertaining read. An interesting association copy INSCRIBED on the half title page by the author to actor Susan Dey and producer Bernie Sofronski and dated in the year of publication. Laid in is a 1991 letter, single page typed and SIGNED by Zagst in which - among other topics - he talks about hoping that this book will interest them as far as dramatic rights are concerned. 247 pp. ISBN: 1-556110103.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1987). First edition - Jay Fielding Mount, the protagonist of this unusual first novel, is both simple in some ways, and gifted in others, with an instinct for trouble and an odd, itinerant existence. A book which "provides a penetrating insight into life at the edge of society in turn-of-the-century America. From a near-fatal lightning accident in his youth to an adult encounter with Thomas Edison, Mount is uneasy with 'e-lec-tri-c-stetty'." (PW) 294 pp. ISBN: 0-871131749.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (usual toning to the pages).
"MH" MEETS PRESIDENT HARDING.
MOUNT'S MISTAKE.
