In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash. [A Christmas Story].

SHEPHERD, Jean.

In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash. [A Christmas Story].

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1966.

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"In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that, as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan": First Edition of In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash; Inscribed by Jean Shepherd

First edition of the Shepherd's breakthrough novel, the basis of Bob Clark's timeless classic 1983 Christmas marathon film A Christmas Story, which Shepherd himself narrated. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Smith. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

A bestseller at the time of its publication, Shepherd's most important published work, In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, inspired two films; A Christmas Story (1983) and My Summer Story (1994), both of which Shepherd narrated. Released on November 18th 1983, A Christmas Story earned two Canadian Genie Awards in 1984 and in 2012 was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".