Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of The Assignation by Joyce Carol Oates. First Edition stated, 1988 Ecco. First Printing, without subsequent printing.
The book is in Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a convex spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, heavy spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Fine condition with the erased price on the first free end paper and no other marks, inscriptions or 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. First state jacket with the $16.95 price and the 8809 date code on the front flap l
In forty-four very short, very powerful stories, Joyce Carol Oates fashions brief, intensely compact dramas out of the unwieldy material of human experience. The stories in The Assignation are infused with a “radiant intensity,” wrote James Atlas in the New York Times Book Review, and they convey the depth and scope of a novel in a few charged pages. The Assignation is an electric display of the talents that make Joyce Carol Oates one of our finest short story writers.
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