Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of The Body Artist by Don DeLillo in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, 2003 Scribner. First Printing with complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean boards, strong title gilt on the square spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear and looks great in a new archival wrap.
28-year-old Eric Packer “wants to be one civilization ahead of this one.” But on an April day in the year 2000, Eric’s fortune and life fall apart. The story tracks him as he traverses Manhattan in his stretch limo. His goal: a haircut at Anthony’s, his father’s old barber. But on this day his driver has to navigate a presidential visit, an attack by anarchists and a rapper’s funeral. Meanwhile, the yen is mounting, destroying Eric’s bet against it. The catastrophe liberates Eric’s destructive instinct-he shoots another character and increases his bet. Mostly, the action consists of sequences in the back of the limo (where he stages meetings with his doctor, various corporate officers and a New Economy guru) interrupted by various pit stops.
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