Description
For sale is a rare and exceptional first edition, first printing of A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore, protected in a new archival wrap. First edition stated, 2009 Knopf. First Printing without subsequent printing on the copyright page and 2009 on title page.
The exterior of the book is in Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a tilted spine, lightly foxed page blocks, tight binding, moderate spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and one lightly bumped corner. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an 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 lightly toned.
As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwesterndaughter of a gentleman hill farmer—his “Keltjin potatoes” are justifiably famous—has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own.
