Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first collected edition, first printing hardcover copy of The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. First Edition stated, 1981 Dutton. 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, heavy spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the previous owner’s initals on the front paste down. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The rear end paper 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 wear. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they “dream on” in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
