For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of McSweeney’s Issue 65 – Plundered by Valeria Luiselli and others. First Edition unstated, 2021 McSweeney’s Books. First Printing with no subsequent printing.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, illustrated boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, strong spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
No dust jacket.
McSweeney’s 65: Plundered spans the Americas, from a bone-strewn Peruvian desert to inland South Texas, and considers the violence that shaped it. In fifteen bracing stories, the collection delves into extraction, exploitation, and, crucially, defiance. How does a community, an individual, resist the plundering of land and peoples? Guest-edited by acclaimed author Valeria Luiselli, with Heather Cleary, Issue 65 brings together stories of stolen artifacts and endless job searches, of nationality-themed amusement parks and cultish banana plantations. Including contributors from Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, the United States, and more, Plundered is a panoramic portrait of a hemisphere on fire.