JOSEPH A. WAMBAUGH JR. - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED - HFSID 267197
Joseph Wambaugh signs a first day cover honoring Paul Laurence Dunbar.
First Day Cover signed: "Joseph Wambaugh", 6½x3½.
Price: $90.00
Condition: Slightly soiled
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JOSEPH WAMBAUGH
Joseph Wambaugh signs a first day cover honoring Paul Laurence Dunbar.
First Day Cover signed: "Joseph Wambaugh", 6½x3½. First Day Cover honoring Paul
Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906 American Poet, two 10-cent stamps affixed, postmarked
Dayton, Ohio, May 1, 1975, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE. Joseph Wambaugh, Jr. (1937-2025)
had been with the Los Angeles Police Department for ten years before publishing his
first novel, The New Centurions (1971). Credited with transforming the sub-genre of the
police novel into serious literature, his books also include The Blue Knight (1972), The
Onion Field (1973) and The Choirboys (1975), and his work on the Police Story television
series in the 1970s set standards of realism, dialogue and character development for
subsequent writers of police dramas. Slightly soiled and worn at blank margins. Fine
condition.
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