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  First Edition of Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View; Inscribed by Justice Breyer to Fellow Author Peter Matthiessen and Signed Three times by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd

  BREYER, Stephen [Chip Kidd] [Peter Matthiessen].

  Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View.

  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

  First edition of the justice’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to writer Peter Matthiessen on the half-title page, "For Peter Best wishes Stephen Breyer." Additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the half-title page in the year of publication, front panel [in the month of publication 9/2010] and the rear jacket flap. The recipient, writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. “No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea” (Michael Dirda). Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.

  Price: $1,200.00     Item Number: 151208

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  First Edition of Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View; Signed by Twice by Justice Breyer and Three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd

  BREYER, Stephen [Chip Kidd].

  Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View.

  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

  First edition of the justice’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author and signed twice on the half-title page, "To Matthew Best wishes Stephen Breyer." Additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the title page in the year of publication, front panel [in the year of publication] and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.

  Price: $600.00     Item Number: 151297

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