Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first collected edition, first printing hardcover copy of A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. First Trade Edition stated, 1989 Wm. Morrow. First Printing with full number line, 1-10.
The book is in Very Good condition with clean boards with light fading at the edges and a very heavy spine tilt. Also with strong title ink on a concave spine, light smudges on page blocks, tight binding, lightly rolled spine ends, moderate edge wear, and two lightly rubbed corners.
The interior of the book is also in Very Good condition with spattered ink on several pages between pages 230-55, which appear to be printing errors. No other marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, making it a stunning example of this highly sought-after first edition that looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother’s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
