Geek Love.

DUNN, Katherine.

$1,600.00

Item Number: 147967

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

First edition of this classic work, named by The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years. Octavo original half cloth. Boldly signed by Katherine Dunn on the title page and signed three times by legendary designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel; on the title page and on the rear jacket flap. The book’s original cover art by Chip Kidd caused a sensation at book conventions when it was introduced in 1989. Its plain, stark orange color and unusual fonts went against conventional design aesthetics. In keeping with the novel’s theme of mutation, the lettering of the title employs mutated fonts, and the book’s spine sports a five-legged dog, an alteration Kidd slipped past the publisher and which was not noticed until after the initial print run. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. A unique example.

Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. “Like most great novels, this one keeps the reader marveling at the daring of the author" (Philadelphia Inquirer).