The Broom of the System by Wallace, David Foster - 1987

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1987-01-06. Paperback. Good.

New York: Penguin, 1987. First printing of first (paperback) edition, issued simultaneously with the hardcover. Softcover. Very Good-. 7 5/8 x 5. 3G. A solid copy with firm, square, uncreased spine and no marks to text, but the cover is considerably shelfworn, with some edgewear, and there is significant wear and curling to the corners of the cover and front pages. Pages age-toned. Small bits of discoloration back cover. Erasure of ink marks on front enpaper has almost worn through to reverse (title page). (Someone really did not want to be known as a reader of David Foster Wallace, I guess.) Small crease top corner back cover. SLight dent to spine.

E-001: Penguin Books. Very Good. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Penguin Books, New York. 1987. 480 pgs. First Edition/First Printing (simultaneous with the Hardcover edition). Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore’s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-babble,… Read More

Penguin Books, 1987-01-06. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!