City Life (Signed)
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1970.
First Edition. Hardcover.
Signed by the author on title page. First Edition, First Printing. Bookclub edition with slug on rear board, else appears identical to trade first - with price of $5.95 intact on dust wrapper flap.
Fourteen short stories exploring city life through Barthelme's signature humorous postmodernist lens.
Item #9016926-1/4 x 8-3/4", orange cloth, black endpapers, orange top-edge, 168pp, illustrated.
Bumping to lower spine corner both boards extending through internal leaves, a little fading and crimping extreme spine ends, clean of owners marks, square, crisp, very good + in dust wrapper with a bit of wear to extreme spine ends and corner with a single 1/2" edge-tear to dust wrapper at upper front flap fold, in protective mylar.
Price: $75.00