Brotherly Love. Signed by Pete Dexter. Limited First Edition. Franklin Library. Franklin Center, 1991.

American author Pete Dexter published several novels and non-fiction works in the late twentieth century. He was also a successful screenwriter. He is best known for Paris Trout, his novel which won the National Book Award. Yet his other works have been critically praised as well. In Brotherly Love, Dexter provides a crime novel set in Philadelphia. It involves the Irish mob, a murder, and the coming-of-age of its main character. Critics praised the work for its characterization and prose. It is one of Dexter’s most widely read works.

This limited first edition is signed by Dexter on the publisher’s limitation page. It is in fine condition. In the original leather, finely gilt stamped. Raised bands. Gilt spine label. Text block fine. Gilt edges. Faux marbled endpapers. Bookmark sewn in.

A fine signed limited first edition of Brotherly Love.