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"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 Wallaces First Novel, The Broom of the System; Signed by Him and three times by illustrator Lon Kirschner who has added an original illustration
WALLACE, David Foster.
The Broom of the System.
New York: The Viking Press, 1987.
First paperback edition (issued simultaneously with the hardcover edition) of the author's first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Additionally signed three times by the illustrator Lon Kirschner, on the front panel, rear panel and on the title page with an added original illustration. In fine condition. Illustration on the front panel by Lon Kirschner. An unique example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 124672
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Signed Limited Edition of The David Foster Wallace Reader
WALLACE, David Foster.
The David Foster Wallace Reader.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Deluxe signed limited edition of this compilation of Foster Wallace's work. Octavo, original boards. Signed by artist Karen Green, the widow of Foster Wallace. The limited edition contains one piece of the original painting, "signed on verso with the artist's fingerprint." Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 138151
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Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition Of The Authors Magnum Opus; Signed by David Foster Wallace
WALLACE, David Foster.
Infinite Jest: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 138301
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"Wallace embraces the incompatibility of mathematics and prose and makes art from it": First Edition of Everything And More; Signed by David Foster Wallace
WALLACE, David Foster.
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.
First edition of this work which examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work of Georg Cantor, the 19th-century German mathematician who created set theory. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Base Art Co./Terry Rohrbach.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 144245
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First Edition of David Foster Wallace's Girl With Curious Hair
WALLACE, David Foster.
Girl With Curious Hair.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989.
First edition of the author's second book and first collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Debra Morton Hoyt.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 145192
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"The Truth Will Set You Free. But Not Until It Is Finished With You": First Edition Of The Authors Magnum Opus; Signed By David Foster Wallace in the year of publication
WALLACE, David Foster.
Infinite Jest: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
First edition of the author's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated in the year of publication on the title page, "Hello! David Foster Wallace 2/96." Fine in a fine first state dust jacket with Vollmann misspelled on the back panel. Jacket design by Steve Snider.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 145601
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"The Truth Will Set You Free. But Not Until It Is Finished With You": First Edition Of The Authors Magnum Opus Infinite Jest
WALLACE, David Foster.
Infinite Jest: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
First edition of the author's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine first state dust jacket with Vollmann misspelled on the back panel. Jacket design by Steve Snider.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146160
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"The Truth Will Set You Free. But Not Until It Is Finished With You": First Edition Of The Authors Magnum Opus Infinite Jest; With a Signed Promotional of this Novel
WALLACE, David Foster.
Infinite Jest: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
First edition of the author's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Signed promotional of Infinite Jest laid in. Fine in a fine first state dust jacket with Vollmann misspelled on the back panel. Jacket design by Steve Snider.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 146279
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"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 Wallaces First Novel, The Broom of the System; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Him
WALLACE, David Foster.
The Broom of the System.
New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
First edition of the author's classic first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling and author's initials to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation, rare and desirable signed.
Price: $3,600.00 Item Number: 146609
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First Edition of Henry A. Wallace's Democracy Reborn
WALLACE, Henry A; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Russell Lord.
Democracy Reborn.
London: Hammond, Hammond & Co. Ltd, 1945.
First English edition of this work on democratic politics. Octavo, original tan cloth, frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrated with black and white plates. In very good condition with toning to the spine, front and rear panels.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146243
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Signed Limited Edition of Lew Wallace's The Fair God: A Tale Of The Conquest of Mexico; one of only 250 copies signed by him
WALLACE, Lew. Illustrated by Eric Pape.
The Fair God: A Tale Of The Conquest of Mexico.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1899.
First edition of Union General Lew Wallace's first novel. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's embossed morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, rebacked, top edge gilt, patterned endpapers, elaborately illustrated with both in-text and full page engravings within gilt frames and with lettered tissue-guards by Eric Pape, decorated initials. One of 250 numbered copies inscribed and dated by the author on the limitation page, "Very respectfully Lew Wallace, Nov. 7, 1898" and signed by the illustrator beneath the frontispiece of volume I. This is number 11. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 109623
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Signed Limited Edition of Robert James Waller's A Thousand Country Roads
WALLER, Robert James.
A Thousand Country Roads.
Alpine & Houston: John M. Hardy Publishing, 2002.
Signed limited edition of the sequel to The Bridges of Madison County. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Robert James Waller. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 136512
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First Edition of Robert James Waller's A Thousand Country Roads; Signed by Him
WALLER, Robert James.
A Thousand Country Roads.
Alpine & Houston: John M. Hardy Publishing, 2002.
First edition of the sequel to The Bridges of Madison County. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Robert James Waller on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Leisha Israel. Author photograph by Linda Solomon.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 137799
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First editions of The World's Worst Children and The World's Worst Children Two; both volumes signed by David Walliams
WALLIAMS, David.
The World’s Worst Children [with] The World’s Worst Children Two.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2016.
First editions of the best-selling author's collection of deliciously mischievous tales of simply the worst children. Octavo, two volumes, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with color illustrations by Tony Ross. Both volumes signed by the author opposite the copyright page. Both volumes are fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Tony Ross.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145215