Description
For sale is a rare and exceptional First hardcover Edition, First Printing of Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins. First Edition described, December1984 Bantam Books. First Printing with complete number line, 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, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, no edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions or signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Good condition with price on the front flap mild surface wear and heavy edge wear, chips, gaps and tears. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine oclock tonight (Paris time). It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon because it is leaking and there is only a drop or two left.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
