A MARKER TO MEASURE DRIFT

New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 230 pages. The author's breakthrough second novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Alexander Maksik's "A Marker To Measure Drift". His mesmerizing second novel. "A hypnotic, spellbinding novel set in Greece and Africa, where a young Liberian woman reckons with a haunted past. Visceral and gripping, extraordinary in its depiction of physical and spiritual hungers. A novel about ruin and faith, barbarism and love, and the devastating memories that contain the power both to destroy us and to redeem us" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Alexander Maksik collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, dated (shortly after publication), and placed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "9/22/13 Alexander Maksik NYC". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed, placed, and post-publication dated copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant new voices in American literature. A fine copy. . ISBN 0307962571.