From Here to Eternity.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. His first book, one of the great novels of World War II. Winner of the National Book Award and the basis for a film that won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Peter Matthiessen: "For Peter ── You've saved this longer than I have. With Love, Jim James Jones." Also with Peter Matthiessen's printed ownership signature above the inscription. There was a signed limited issue of this title comprising 1500 copies, but signed copies of the trade edition are far scarcer. A bulky book, usually found in inferior condition, this copy is a good example: cloth mottled and a chip to the crown of the spine in a very good dust jacket. One section is marked by Matthiessen: pp. 218-219, in which Jones describes the playing of Taps. Marked with a bracket, two arrows, and a check mark, and with a feather laid in marking the page.