March Of The Hero (Signed) by Richard Lee Marks

Description: Condition Continued: The small bump above the bottom corner of the rear cover created a very small crease just off the tip of the bottom corners of a good number of the latter pages. It is, of course, far from the print. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And the author's signed inscription is the only writing to be found anywhere. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. It has a 2 inch tear coming up from the front bottom edge. There is one tiny tear off the top edge of the rear cover, another tiny one just off the bottom edge of the front cover, and a little wear at the top and bottom edges of the spine. There's also a tiny scuff at the front bottom corner The jacket is quite clean. The flaps are in very good shape, also very clean. There is a small crease just off the rear flap's bottom corner and a tiny one at the rear flap's top corner. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. It will be fitted with a protective cover after the photos are scanned. Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1954. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Written by Richard Lee Marks. First Edition (Appleton-Century-Cross= '(1)' on the last page). This book is signed and inscribed on the first front end paper: 'For Judge _______ , from Richard Lee Marks, January 15, 1954.' Included with the book is a separate signed note, in a small envelope, from the author to the Judge. From the dust jacket: 'Sometimes, but not often, a first novel comes along which matches a powerful theme with an execution worthy of it. Such a novel is March Of The Hero . Its narrative is an adventure of love, betrayal, and murder; its subject is the dangerous dilemma of human temptation and the corruption of conscience. Out of the unrest, passions, fears, and hopes of our time, Richard Lee Marks has created a timeless and engrossing story.' From the author's obituary: 'Richard Lee Marks was a theatrical producer and a Pulitzer Prize nominated author of the historical novel, 'Cortés: The Great Adventurer and the Fate of Aztec Mexico.' He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University and master's degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as an officer in the Pacific during WWII, and returned home in 1946 to marry. Together he and his wife traveled extensively throughout South America; living in Argentina, Peru, Spain and Mexico where Marks researched and wrote his first two novels 'The March of the Hero' and 'The Pendulum'. Back in New York, Marks embarked on a career in education as co-owner and Headmaster of Mohawk Country Home School in White Plains, NY. Active in New York Theater for many years, he produced plays by Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter and Mark Medoff, among others. After moving to Topeka, Kansas in 1985 he resumed his writing career with a work of non-fiction, 'Three Men of the Beagle' followed in 1994 by the aforementioned critically acclaimed, Pulitzer prize nominated historical novel, 'Cortes: The Great Adventurer and the Fate of Aztec Mexico.'

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