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New York::: Harper & Row,,, 1976... First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a slight toning to the upper edges of the jacket flaps. Ford's First Book. A Piece of My Heart is the story of two godless pilgrims who drive across the country in the service of a destructive passion. Sam Newell is seeking the missing piece of himself. When these men converge, on an uncharted island in the Mississippi, each discovers the thing he's looking for--amid a conflagration of violence that's as shocking as it is inevitable. This is quality writing in the highest American tradition of Faulkner, Hemingway and Steinbeck ... The dialogue is immaculate. The story-telling and plotting are confident and rich in texture. Above all, the sense of atmosphere, mood, time and place has a resonance that sings in the head and stimulates every sense.

London :: Collins Harvill,, 1987.. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. This copy is signed by Ford on the title page. This is Ford's first book and tells the vicious, yet funny, story of two men--one pursuing a woman the other searching for himself. The two find themselves on an uncharted island in the Mississippi River where their individual intentions are obscured by the strangeness of their mysterious locale.