Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis. First Edition unstated, 2023 Knopf. First Printing with 2023 on both title and copyright pages and no subsequent printing. Cover design by Chip Kidd.
The book is in Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a convex spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is also in Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other 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 Fine condition with no wear and the price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Set against the intensely vivid and nostalgic backdrop of pre-Less Than Zero L.A., The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction, the real and the imagined, that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret’s life at seventeen—sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage. Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting, and often darkly funny, The Shards is Ellis at his inimitable best.
Ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
