Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
NF/NF 1

Description

For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. First Edition stated, February 2017 Grand Central. First Printing with full number line reversed, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.

The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a convex spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild 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 inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.

The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear. First state jacket with the $27.00 price on the front flap and no NB award emblem. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.

Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan’s finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee’s complex and passionate characters–strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis–survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.

Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.