S. Ship of Theseus by V.M. Straka, (J.J. Abrams/Doug Dorst) - 2013

Brand New. Slipcase in publisher's shrink-wrap. 1st/1st. New York: Winged Shoes Press, 1949. 1949 on the title page, actual publication date October, 2013 Mulholland Press inside the back cover. Filled with fun and authentic-looking loose inserts (see photos from an opened edition.) The pages are purposely worn and yellowed with library stamps on the front and back cover plus stains on the pages to resemble a journal which ended up in a library. Front spine even has a library sticker. 456 pages. 6.25"x 9.25". Original $35.00 on bar code bottom sticker. A Cult Classic.

S. is a 2013 novel written by Doug Dorst and conceived by J.J. Abrams. The novel is unusual in its format, presented as a story within a story. It is composed of the fictional novel Ship of Theseus by a fictional author, and hand-written notes filling the book's margins as a dialogue between two college students hoping to uncover the author's mysterious identity and the novel's secret. Concurrent with the students' timeline of reading and annotating the novel, postcards, handwritten letters, maps, and photocopied articles and book excerpts are physically folded and inserted between the book's bound pages as Jen and Eric provide evidence and clues to one another while exchanging the book.

S. has been called "part work of art, literary experiment, and love letter to the physical expression of books.