John McPhee

An inscribed first printing copy of the profile of basketball icon Bill Bradley, who would later become a United States Senator.

• John McPhee (American).
• New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1965).
• 146 pages.
• Inscribed by McPhee on the title page, dated December 16, 1965.
• Bound in the original black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, with the original unclipped pictorial dust jacket.

John McPhee is a trailblazer in the creative nonfiction genre. A Sense of Where You Are covers a topic with which he was intimately familiar: as the son of the physician of Princeton's athletic department and later a Princeton student himself, McPhee understood the importance of Bill Warren Bradley's skill on the basketball court. McPhee profiled Bradley for The New Yorker following Bradley's gold medal-winning performance on the 1964 US Olympic basketball team, where he got a sense of his potential and record-breaking talent. A Sense of Where You Are follows Bradley's storied senior year as he led Princeton to take an unprecedented third place in the NCAA championship, all the while excelling academically, for which he was named a Rhodes Scholar. McPhee would go on to be nominated for the Pulitzer Prize four times, eventually winning the honor in 1999.