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Tom Hanks "Uncommon Type" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA [Very Fine]

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Tom Hanks "Uncommon Type" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA  [Very Fine]
Tom Hanks "Uncommon Type" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA  [Very Fine]
Tom Hanks "Uncommon Type" Signed First Edition, First Printing
Tom Hanks "Uncommon Type" Signed First Edition, First Printing
Tom Hanks "Uncommon Type" Signed First Edition, First Printing
Tom Hanks "Uncommon Type" Signed First Edition, First Printing
Tom Hanks "Uncommon Type" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA  [Very Fine]
Tom Hanks "Uncommon Type" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA  [Very Fine]
Tom Hanks "Uncommon Type" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA  [Very Fine]
Tom Hanks "Uncommon Type" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA  [Very Fine]
Tom Hanks "Uncommon Type" Signed First Edition, First Printing w/COA  [Very Fine]

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Personally signed by Tom Hanks, the American cultural icon and one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide.  

This first edition has been personally signed by Tom Hanks directly onto the title page.


Knopf (October 17, 2017). Tom Hanks "Uncommon Type" Signed First Edition. First Printing. This hardcover book was obtained from the official book tour for this title. Very Fine without any flaws. The dust-jacket is now protected in a brand new Mylar archival Brodart sleeve.

 

  • ISBN-10: 1101946156.
  • ISBN-13: 978-1101946152.
  • Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 1.1 x 8.2 inches.


Uncommon Type: Some Stories

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.

A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country’s civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game–and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN’s newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture into America looking for acquisitions and discover a down and out motel, romance, and a bit of real life. These are just some of the tales Tom Hanks tells in this first collection of his short stories. They are surprising, intelligent, heartwarming, and, for the millions and millions of Tom Hanks fans, an absolute must-have!

 

Praise

“It turns out that Tom Hanks is also a wise and hilarious writer with an endlessly surprising mind. Damn it.”
—Steve Martin

“The central quality to Tom’s writing is a kind of poignant playfulness. It’s exactly what you hope from him, except you wish he were sitting in your home, reading it aloud to you, one story at a time.”
—Mindy Kaling

“Wait—Tom Hanks can write, too? Funny, moving, deftly surprising stories? That’s just swell. Maybe there’s no crying in baseball, pal, but it’s perfectly acceptable in the book business. That’s how we drown envy.”
—Carl Hiaasen

 

“Mr. Hanks turns out to be as authentically genuine a Writer with as capital a W as ever touched a typewriter key. The stories in UNCOMMON TYPE range from the hilarious to the deeply touching. They move in period, location and manner, but all demonstrate a joy in writing, a pleasure in communicating an intensely American sense of atmosphere, friendship, life and family that is every bit as smart, engaging and humane as the man himself. All with that extra quality of keenly observant and sympathetic intelligence that has always set Tom Hanks apart. I blink, bubble and boggle in amazed admiration.” —Stephen Fry

 

“Uncommon Type is funny, wise, gloriously inventive and humane. Tom Hanks sees inside people – a wary divorcee, a billionaire trading desire for disaster, a boy witnessing his father’s infidelity, a motley crew shooting for the moon – with such acute empathy and good humour we’d follow him anywhere. The cumulative effect is of a world I didn’t want to leave.”
—Anna Funder

 

“Reading Tom Hanks’s Uncommon Type is like finding out that Alice Munro is also the greatest actress of our time.”
—Ann Patchett

 

Seventeen wide-ranging and whimsical stories—with a typewriter tucked into each one. Only one of the stories in Hanks’ debut features an actor: it’s a sharp satire with priceless insider details about a handsome dope on a press junket in Europe. The other 16 span a surprisingly wide spectrum…Hanks can write the hell out of typing, and his dialogue is excellent, too. Has he read William Saroyan? He should. While these stories have the all-American sweetness, humor, and heart we associate with his screen roles, Hanks writes like a writer, not a movie star.”
—Kirkus Reviews

 

 

Features

This signed first edition includes the original dust-jacket, now protected in a brand new Brodart archival sleeve.
 

Tom Hanks 

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks' films have grossed more than $4.9 billion in North America and more than $9.96 billion worldwide, making him the fourth-highest-grossing actor in North America. He has received numerous honors including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor both in 2016 as well as the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2020.

Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in a series of comedy films which received positive media attention, such as Splash (1984), The Money Pit (1986), Big (1988) and A League of Their Own (1992). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and the title character in Forrest Gump (1994).[8] Hanks collaborated with film director Steven Spielberg on five films: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), as well as the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and The Pacific (2010), which launched him as a director, producer, and screenwriter.

Hanks' other films include the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002) and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Sully (2016), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), News of the World (2020) and Elvis (2022). Hanks has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series (1995–2019).

For his work on television, Hanks has also won seven Primetime Emmy Awards for his work as a producer of various limited series and television movies, including From the Earth to the Moon (1998), Band of Brothers (2001), John Adams (2008), The Pacific (2009), Game Change (2012), and Olive Kitteridge (2015). In 2013, he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy.[9]

VERY FINE GUARANTEED

Hardcover: Very Fine without any flaws. A wonderful bring clean copy without any other marks, writings , or stamps. Clean & straight boards. No attached bookplates or indication of any removed. A well-cared for book, protected from any potential damage. Unread with square and tight spine.

Dust-jacket: Very Fine without any flaws. It is free of tears, chips, creases, etc. As new condition as normally shipped by the publisher.

Publisher:
Knopf (October 17, 2017)
Edition:
Signed First Edition, First Printing
Binding:
Hardcover with dust jacket
Author:
Tom Hanks
Title:
Uncommon Type