First Book, Signed
Suder
Publication: New York: Viking, 1983. First Edition.
Notes: The acclaimed writer's first book, a comic novel about a baseball player, an elephant, and a nine-year-old runaway who adopts them both.
Everett is finally gaining a wider readership because of the award-winning film American Fiction made from his novel, Erasure, a farce about the contradictions facing Black authors in the mostly white publishing world. His 2024 novel, James, a retelling of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, became his first bestseller after forty years of writing.
171 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, stating "First published..."). A near fine copy in a like dust jacket, with a review slip and a press release laid in. This copy is signed by Everett on the title page and is scarce thus. Everett has seldom done book tours and signed copies of his books are relatively uncommon.
ISBN: 0670681105
Item No: #325259
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