Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, early printing of The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis. First Edition unstated, 2023 Knopf. Third Printing stated, February 2023. Cover design by Chip Kidd.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a convex spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, heavy spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly bumped corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. No other 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 Near Fine condition with mild edge 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.
