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Zustand: Very Good. First. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. First. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo trade paperback "very good" with some creasing along the spine and an inch-and-a-half diagonal crease to bottom corner of rear wrap. Hand-dated "1986" to title page and signed "Merry Christmas / Byron Hanchett." (The "signatures" of Bill & Austine Hearst which appear to rear wrap are reproduced in print -- those two, unlike author Hanchett's signature, are not "live.") 1988 blind-stamp of The Cavalier Inn below that inscription, and there's a gold sticker to front wrap bearing a stylized letter "C" reading "With Our Compliments." (The Cavalier Inn is an oceanfront hostelry in San Simeon, three miles from Hearst Castle.) Author Hanchett started work at the Hearst Castle in 1946, and stayed on through the conversion to a California state "Historical Monument" and tourist attraction after the Hearst family donated the core of the property to the state in 1957. While the castle in generally thought of in terms of '"Citizen Kane," as an over-the-top, forbidding, and self-indulgent display area for the newspaper magnate's voracious collection of medieval European art and statuary, Hanchett makes clear it actually operated on the model of a self-sufficient medieval castle, surrounded by a functioning 275,000-acre cattle ranch with 50 miles of Pacific Ocean front, its own airport, poultry farm, orchards, zoo, stables, swimming pools, motion picture theater, its own powerhouse and fully staffed telephone switchboard, electric shop, plumbing shop, blacksmith shop, stonemason, etc. 200 pp., now reduced from $150. B&W photos on matte stock (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s). …