JOSEPH A. WAMBAUGH JR. - TYPESCRIPT SIGNED 8/1980 - HFSID 179043
Price: $220.00
JOSEPH WAMBAUGH
Joseph Wambaugh signs a typescript of the opening lines of his first novel, The New
Centurions.
Typescript signed: "Joseph Wambaugh/Aug 1980", 1p, 8½x11. The opening lines of his first
novel, The New Centurions, published in 1970. Wambaugh had been a detective for the LAPD
for ten years when he published The New Centurions, the first of his novels and non-fiction
drawn from his experience. 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. Fine condition.
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