Gravedigger’s Daughter, The – Joyce Carol Oates
NF/NF Signed

For sale: a Signed first hardcover edition, first printing of The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates. First Edition stated, 2007 Ecco. First Printing, with complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.

The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly bumped corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the author’s signature on the blank publisher’s page without inscription. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.

The dust jacket is in Fine condition with mild edge wear. First state jacket with the $26.95 price and the 0607 date code on the front flap. Looks great in a new archival wrap.

In The Gravedigger’s Daughter, Oates has created a masterpiece of domestic yet mythic realism, at once emotionally engaging and intellectually provocative: an intimately observed testimony to the resilience of the individual to set beside such predecessors as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys.