Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Gain by Richard Powers. First Edition stated, 1998 Farrar, Straus Giroux. First Printing with no subsequent printing.
The exterior of the book is in Near Fine condition with clean boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the front paste down. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition, with the price on the front flap and mild surface and edge wear. L
When three Boston merchant brothers coax the secret of fine soapmaking from an Irish immigrant, they set in motion a chain of events that will spin a family cottage soap works into a multinational consumer-goods giant by the millennium’s end. Set against this sweeping, 170-year rise of the Clare Soap and Chemical Company is the contemporary story of Laura Bodey, a real-estate broker. Laura, her two teenage children, and her ex-husband all live in Lacewood, Illinois, a place that owes its very existence to the regional Clare factories that have nursed the town from nothing.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
