Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of I’ll Take You There by Joyce Carol Oates. First Edition stated, 2002 Ecco. First Printing, with complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
The book is in Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a square spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Fine condition without any marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild edge wear. First state jacket with the $25.95 price and the 1002 date code on the front flap l
I’ll Take You There is told by a woman looking back on her first years of college, at Syracuse in the 1970s. Her story, softened by the gauze of memory and the relief of having survived, nonetheless captures a harrowing ordeal of alienation and despair, heightened by a wrenching interracial love affair and her father’s death.
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