MCELROY, Joseph. Women and Men (signed)
MCELROY, Joseph. Women and Men. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1987. Thick 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s quarter cream cloth over slate grey boards, lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board. In the dust jacket designed by Carin Goldberg. This copy signed without dedication by McElroy to the title page. A fabulous copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square with the usual slight sagging from the crown as is always the case; this is a tome. The contents fine, the dust jacket unclipped ($27.50), complete and fine.
McElroy’s monolithic masterpiece of postmodern fiction, often aligned with Joyce’s Ulysses, Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, and Gaddis’s The Recognitions for its size, complexity, and maximalist style. Published simultaneously to the trade edition was a special leather-bound limited edition published by Ultramarine Press, in a now-dubious edition of 99 copies—it is rumoured the number is much less. The novel continually growing in both reputation and scarcity, especially so signed.
MCELROY, Joseph. Women and Men. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1987. Thick 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s quarter cream cloth over slate grey boards, lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board. In the dust jacket designed by Carin Goldberg. This copy signed without dedication by McElroy to the title page. A fabulous copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square with the usual slight sagging from the crown as is always the case; this is a tome. The contents fine, the dust jacket unclipped ($27.50), complete and fine.
McElroy’s monolithic masterpiece of postmodern fiction, often aligned with Joyce’s Ulysses, Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, and Gaddis’s The Recognitions for its size, complexity, and maximalist style. Published simultaneously to the trade edition was a special leather-bound limited edition published by Ultramarine Press, in a now-dubious edition of 99 copies—it is rumoured the number is much less. The novel continually growing in both reputation and scarcity, especially so signed.
MCELROY, Joseph. Women and Men. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1987. Thick 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s quarter cream cloth over slate grey boards, lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board. In the dust jacket designed by Carin Goldberg. This copy signed without dedication by McElroy to the title page. A fabulous copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square with the usual slight sagging from the crown as is always the case; this is a tome. The contents fine, the dust jacket unclipped ($27.50), complete and fine.
McElroy’s monolithic masterpiece of postmodern fiction, often aligned with Joyce’s Ulysses, Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, and Gaddis’s The Recognitions for its size, complexity, and maximalist style. Published simultaneously to the trade edition was a special leather-bound limited edition published by Ultramarine Press, in a now-dubious edition of 99 copies—it is rumoured the number is much less. The novel continually growing in both reputation and scarcity, especially so signed.