Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of The Female of the Species by Lionel Shriver in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, 1987 Farrar Straus Giroux. First Printing 1987 stated.
The book is in Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and corners. The interior of the book is in Fine condition with no other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear and the 17.95 price on the front flap. Looks great in a new archival wrap.
Gray Kaiser, a proud and fierce fifty-nine-year-old anthropologist, journeys to Kenya to make a documentary and is reduced to miserable dependence when she falls in love with a young graduate assistant
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.



