McSweeney’s Issue 19 – Various Artists
NF Cigar Box

For sale: a Rare and Exceptional cigar box edition, first printing of McSweeney’s Issue 19 by T.C. Boyle and others. First Edition unstated, 2006 McSweeney’s Books. First Printing with no subsequent printing.

The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, illustrated boards in a cigar box design, strong title ink on both straight spines, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, strong spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. Inside the box is a paperback volume and several pamphlets, info-cards, and letters addressing bygone conflicts and concerns.

No dust jacket as issued.

McSweeney’s Issue 19 turns toward earlier and equally uncertain years, traveling back by way of pamphlets, info-cards, and letters addressing bygone conflicts and still-constant concerns. Expect, among other recovered works, carefree strategies for insurgencies in Nicaragua, astrological advice for the Nixon/Agnew campaigner, sanguine guidance for the soldier stationed in the Middle East at mid-century, and commonsense reinforcement for the dough-boy drifting toward a gonorrhea infection. Also featured is T.C. Boyle’s feral child novella and additional quasi-historical work by new writers.