You Shall Know Our Velocity (SIGNED): (Issued without a Dust Jacket)
by EGGERS, DAVE
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0970335555
- ISBN 13
- 9780970335555
- Seller
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Monkton, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
HARDCOVER. SIGNED at the Book Signing Event. YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY by Dave Eggers (2002). SIGNED by the author, Dave Eggers, to the Index or Copyright page, which is at the back of this book. This book was purposely published to confound his readers so it violates many standard publishing principles! Like New and Never owned but the spine does have a very, very slight slant. No other issues at all. This is a FIRST American Edition, FIRST Printing copy, as stated on the copyright page. (This book was also issued in the U.K. under ISBN: 978-0241-1422-88 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd on Feb. 27, 2003) This book was issued without a Dust jacket, another deviation from the norm. 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 to inside back cover. No inscription; full signature only. From an event featuring Dave Eggers and Mokhtar Alkhanshali in New York City on November 14, 2017. BONUS: The complete four-page program is included. The book will be carefully wrapped and mailed via USPS with free Delivery Confirmation. **** Dave Eggers is the author of sixteen books, including You Shall Know Our Velocity; What Is the What, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of France's Prix Médicis Etranger and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; Heroes of the Frontier, longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; Zeitoun; The Circle; and A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. The Monk of Mokha was published on January 30, 2018. He is the co-founder of Voice of Witness, an oral history series focused on human-rights crises; 826 National, a network of writing and tutoring centers; and ScholarMatch. ISBN: 978-0970-3355-55. BS12224.
Synopsis
You Shall Know Our Velocity is a 2002 novel by Dave Eggers. It was Eggers's debut novel, following the success of his memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000). The plot follows Will and Hand, two childhood friends who set out on a week-long, around-the-world odyssey, ostensibly to give away a large sum of money.
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- Bookseller
- Charm City Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BS12224
- Title
- You Shall Know Our Velocity (SIGNED)
- Author
- EGGERS, DAVE
- Format/Binding
- HARDCOVER issued w/o Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0970335555
- ISBN 13
- 9780970335555
- Publisher
- McSweeney's; 1st edition (September 2002)
- Place of Publication
- UNITED STATES
- Date Published
- September 1, 2002
- Keywords
- Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED BOOKS;
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