Description
For sale is a rare and exceptional first Paperback edition, first printing of The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. First Edition stated, 1993 Farrar Straus Giroux. First Printing with no subsequent printing.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean boards, strong gilt on spine title, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly bumped corners. The interior of the book is in Very Good condition with the previous owner’s name and a small stain on the first free end paper. The stain is present on the first four pages. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear that looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter’s spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates “the year of the suicides.”
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
