Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional First Edition, first printing hardcover copy of The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster. First US Edition stated, 2002 Holt. First Printing with full number line.
Near Fine hardcover with clean, bright boards, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and strong corners. No marks or inscriptions inside. Pages clean and bright.
Near Fine un-clipped dust jacket with mild edge wear. Looks great in new Brodart archival wrap.
Six months after losing his wife and two young sons, Vermont Professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. One night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann. His interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in 1929.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
