THE NEED (SIGNED, DATED & NEW YORK)

HARDCOVER. SIGNED in Person at the Book Signing Event. THE NEED by Helen Phillips (2019). SIGNED, Dated, (9.22.19), and "Brooklyn, New York," written to the Full Title page by Helen Phillips, the author. Brand New and Never owned. This is the FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING copy as stated on the copyright page. The Dust Jacket is in brand-new condition with no issues. The book has no tears, marks, creases, remainder marks, library markings, or black lines on the edges. Not inscribed to anyone. Not price-clipped, not a Book Club Edition (BCE), or signed on a bookplate. True Collectible Quality. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED, Dated, 9.22.19, and Brooklyn, New York to the Full Title page. No inscriptions; "9.22.19" and "Brooklyn, New York" and her full signature only. From an event featuring Helen Phillips at the Brooklyn Book Festival in New York City on September 22, 2019. FREE: A copy of one book review and two bookmarks from the Brooklyn Book Festival featuring Walt Whitman and Susan Choi are included. This book will be carefully wrapped and shipped with free delivery confirmation. * Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. Best of 2019 Summer Reading: * The New York Times, Vanity Fair, O, The Oprah Magazine, Elle, Vulture, Nylon, oprahmag.com, Thrillist, Bustle, Newsweek, Better Homes & Gardens, Lithub, Star-Tribune (Minneapolis), and, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. *** Helen Phillips' collection, Some Possible Solutions, received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat, a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Award. Her collection, And Yet They Were Happy, was named a notable collection by The Story Prize. She is also the author of the middle-grade novel, Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green. Helen has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Tin House, and on Selected Shorts. She is an associate professor at Brooklyn College. THE NEED was published on July 9, 2019. ISBN: 978-1982-1131-62. BS12951.