GROOM, Winston “Forrest Gump” [Doubleday, 1986] 1st Edition

GROOM, Winston. Forrest Gump.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. First Edition. Octavo, 228 pp. Original yellow paper-covered boards with brown cloth spine, spine lettered in yellow. In the original unclipped dust jacket ($14.95) featuring the seated Forrest cover illustration. The satirical novel that introduced the unlikely hero whose improbable adventures later inspired the Academy Award–winning 1994 film adaptation. Boards clean and bright with sharp corners and a tight, square binding. Pages clean and fresh. Dust jacket with light edge wear and minor creasing at the spine head and foot. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket.