The Broom of the System.
"There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it": First Edition of David Foster Wallace’s First Novel, The Broom of the System; Signed by Him and three times by Jacket illustrator Lon Kirschner with an original drawing
The Broom of the System.
WALLACE, David Foster.
Item Number: 129738
New York: The Viking Press, 1987.
First edition of the author’s first book, which consisted of a print run of only 1300 copies. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page and signed three times by jacket artist Lon Kirschner, with an original illustration on the half-title page, on the front panel and again on the rear panel. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design and art by Lon Kirschner. A unique example.
Published when the author was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. "Daring, hilarious... a zany picaresque adventure of contemporary America run amok" (The New York Times).
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