McSweeney’s Issue 23 – Various Artists
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For sale: a Rare and Exceptional tri-fold hardcover edition, first printing of McSweeney’s Issue 23 by Wells Tower, Chris Bachelder, Ann Beattie, and others. First Edition unstated, 2007 McSweeney’s Books. First Printing with no subsequent printing. Artwork by Andrea Dezsö.

The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, strong spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the second free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside.

The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear. First state jacket with the double-sided poster of Dezsö illustrations and Dave Eggers stories. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.

McSweeney’s Issue 23 includes ten stories from ten excellent writers, including Wells Tower, Chris Bachelder, Ann Beattie, and other agile talents bringing visions of the Dallas/Fort Worth fake-watch trade and Papua New Guinea in the 1960s.  Every story gets its own front and back cover drawn, collaged, or embroidered by the polymathic Andrea Dezsö.  The whole thing is wrapped in a jacket that unfolds into five square feet of double-sided glory — spread it out one way for dozens of very short stories by Dave Eggers, arranged in what we’re pretty sure is a volvelle; flip it over and witness all those Dezsö illustrations stitched into one unbroken expanse.