Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace *SIGNED, w/ promo in custom case

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace *SIGNED, w/ promo in custom case

$5,000.00

New York: Little, Brown, (1996). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 1,079 pp. Original quarter blue cloth over blue paper-covered boards, stamped in silver, in original unclipped ($29.95) first-issue dust-jacket with “Vollman” misspelled to the jacket rear. Faint edge wear, light curling to spine ends and corners. Handling and shelf wear very minor. Some rubbing and smudges and light scratches to jacket gloss. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Housed in a custom embossed Nuba clamshell case. Signed and dated by the author in the month of publication “2/96”, along with the very scarce Infinite Jest promotional pamphlet, laid in.

Dust Jacket: Fine

Hardcover: Fine

"Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. Categorized as an encyclopedic novel, Infinite Jest is featured in TIME magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. The novel has an unconventional narrative structure and includes hundreds of extensive endnotes, some with footnotes of their own. A literary fiction bestseller after having sold 44,000 hardcover copies in its first year of publication, the novel has since sold more than a million copies worldwide. Wallace's working title for Infinite Jest was A Failed Entertainment.”

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