signed first edition
1987 · New York
by MCELROY, Joseph
New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Ultramarine Publishing Co., Inc, 1987. First Edition. First Printing, limited issue, one of 99 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.12. Thick octavo (24.5cm); paste paper boards and navy blue leather backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [xvi],[4],5-1191,[11]pp. Spine lean, some trivial wear to lower corner tips, else internally clean; about Near Fine, lacking the original acetate overlay. Handsome limited edition of McElroy's sixth novel, centered around "the lives (twined by sexual confusion, urban stress, and political or paranoid complication, granted) of the occupants (truncated)