The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
First edition, first printing, signed by Tyler to the title page. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction in 1986, as well as being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Basis for the 1988 award-winning film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Geena Davis, for which Davis won an Academy Award.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Publisher's original quarter cloth over paper-covered boards; pp. (v), 355, [4]. A near fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight and sturdy, minimal wear to boards, internally clean and fine. Jacket shows faint sticker residue near the spine heel and at the flap edges, minor shelfwear, protected in archival mylar.