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Handsomely bound in quarter black cloth spine brightly lettered in white; and gray paper-covered boards with the chess board design with author's initials in white on front boards. Very clean and tight throughout; virtually unread. In a splendid dust jacket featuring art by Will Barnet on the front panel. With the original price of $13.95 at the top of the inside front flap.And the correct two blurbs by Martin Cruz Smith and Hilma Wolitzer on the rear panel. With the faintest touch of wear to the corners and slight toning to the ivory dust jacket panels. A collector's copy of this work which inspired the Netflix miniseries starring Anya Taylor-Joy. Walter Stone Tevis Jr. (February 28, 1928[4] August 9, 1984[5]) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Three of his six novels were adapted into major films: The Hustler, The Color of Money and The Man Who Fell to Earth. A fourth, The Queen s Gambit, was adapted into a miniseries with the same title and shown on Netflix in 2020. His books have been translated into at least 18 languages. Tevis was born in San Francisco, California, in 1928 to Anna Elizabeth "Betty" (née Bacon) and Walter Stone Tevis, an appraiser,[6] growing up in the Sunset District,[7] across the street from Golden Gate Park. His sister, Betty, was born in 1925.[3]He developed a rheumatic heart condition,[8] so his parents placed him in the Stanford Children's Convalescent home[9][10][11] (and given heavy doses of phenobarbital), for a year, during which time they returned to Kentucky, where the Tevis family had been given an early land grant in Madison County. Walter traveled across country alone by train at age 11 to rejoin his family in Kentucky. He made friends with Toby Kavanaugh, a fellow high school student, and learned to shoot pool in the Kavanaugh mansion in Lawrenceburg.[12] In the library there, he read science fiction for the first time.[13] They remained lifelong friends. Kavanaugh later became the owner of a pool room[14] in Lexington, which would have an impact on Tevis's writing.[15] Tevis joined the Navy on his seventeenth birthday. He became a carpenter's mate, serving on the USS Hamul in Okinawa.[16][17][18]After his discharge, he graduated from Model Laboratory School in 1945. He entered the University of Kentucky, where he received B.A. (1949) and M.A. (1954) degrees in English literature and studied with A. B. Guthrie Jr., the author of The Big Sky. While a student there, Tevis worked in a pool hall and published a story about pool written for Guthrie's class. He later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received an MFA in creative writing in 1960.After graduation, Tevis wrote for the Kentucky Highway Department. He taught classes in fields from the sciences and English to physical education in small-town Kentucky high schools in Science Hill, Hawesville, Irvine, and Carlisle. He also taught at Northern Kentucky University, the University of Kentucky, and Southern Connecticut State University.Tevis taught English literature and creative writing at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, from 1965 to 1978, where he was named University Professor. Tevis was a member of the Authors Guild. (Wikipedia) First Edition with the statement "First Edition" and the correct # line beginning with 2. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1337
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