1992, The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller.

(ISBN: 044651652x / 0-446-51652-x)

Book Description: Warner Books, New York, 1992. Hardcover. 171 clean pages, 5.25" x 7.75" tall, .75" thick. FIRST PRINTING, APRIL 1992 WITH SEQUENCE NUMBERS 60- 52 STATED ON THE COPYRIGHT PAGE. Quarter-bound in green cloth over gray boards, with gray endpapers and silver lettering to the spine.

Book Condition: Fine, like new, looks unread.

Dust Jacket Condition: Very good++, front cover is very slightly wavy. The cream pictorial dustwrapper that retains the publisher's price of $16.95 US in the upper right corner.

About This Book: Beautiful copy of the novel that shook the 20th century from Hollywood to Main Street, or Carmel-by-the-Sea, considering that the mayor of Carmel, Clint Eastwood, bought the script and made a delightful movie with Meryl Streep that will be on screens large and small for 100's of years. This is an immaculate original printing.

Waller's first novel, set in the Iowa town of Winterset in the 1960s, about the love between photographer Robert Kincaid who came take pictures of the Roseman and Holliwell covered bridges and Francesca Johnson, an Iowa farmer's wife who, together for only four days, never lose their feelings for each other. Basis for the 1995 major motion picture starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep (Academy Awards nomination for Best Actress).

Cover of deluxe edition DVD of the

1995 film issued by Warner Home

Video in June 2008.

About The Author: Robert James Waller (born August 1, 1939, Rockford, Iowa) is an American author, also known for his work as a photographer and musician. 

Waller received his B.A. ('62) and M.A. ('64) from University of Northern Iowa (then known as Iowa State Teachers College). He received his Ph.D. in business from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Bloomington in 1968.

Later that year he returned to UNI and began teaching management and economics, and in 1977 became a full professor. He became dean of the College of Business in 1980 and retired from that position in 1986. He made a "seven figure" donation to Indiana University.

R. J. Waller, 2005

Several of his books have been on the New York Times bestseller list including 1992's The Bridges of Madison County which was the top best-seller in 1993. Both that novel and his 1995 novel, Puerto Vallarta Squeeze, have been made into motion pictures. Waller currently resides in Texas.

Novels

• The Bridges of Madison County (1992) (original UK Title Love in Black and White)
• Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend (1993) ISBN 0-446-51653-8
• Puerto Vallarta Squeeze (1995)
• Border Music (1995)
• A Thousand Country Roads: An Epilogue to The Bridges of Madison County (2002)

Source: Wikipedia

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