Imperial Bedrooms.

ELLIS, Bret Easton.

Item Number: 123615

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

First edition of the sequel to Easton’s bestselling literary debut, Less Than Zero. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Ryan Seacrest best wishes Bret Easton Ellis.” The recipient, Ryan Seacrest, is an American radio personality, producer, and co-host of Live with Kelly and Ryan. He hosts programs on multiple media platforms as well, including American Idol, American Top 40, and On Air with Ryan Seacrest. He received Emmy Award nominations for American Idol from 2004 to 2013, and again in 2016. He won an Emmy for producing Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution in 2010 and was nominated again in 2012. Additionally signed three times by dust jacket illustrator Chip Kidd, on the front panel and rear flap of the dust jacket and title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Christopher Anderson. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. A unique association.

"Ellis explores what disillusioned youth looks like twenty-five years later in this brutal sequel to Less Than Zero... The story takes on a creepy noirish bent as it barrels toward a conclusion that reveals the horror that lies at the center of a tortured soul... Though the novel's synchronicity with Zero is sublime, this also works as a stellar stand-alone" (Publishers Weekly).