THE BROOM OF THE SYSTEM - AMERICAN & ENGLISH UNCORRECTED PROOF COPIES
New York & London: Viking/Penguin Books / Abacus, [1987], 1997. First Editions. Item #8185
1. The Broom of the System. New York: Viking/Penguin Books, [1987]. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); powder blue card wrappers, with titling and publication information printed in black; [viii],[3],4-463,[1]pp. Slight lean, faint foxing to wrappers and text edges, with two small paint spots on front and rear covers; Very Good+.
2. The Broom of the System. London: Abacus, 1997. First UK Edition, First Impression. Octavo (19.75cm); yellow card wrappers, with titling and publication information printed in black; [viii],[3],4-467,[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine and right edge of front wrapper, trivial dustiness to wrapper extremities, else internally clean; Near Fine.
US and UK uncorrected proof copies of Wallace's first novel, originally submitted as one of his undergraduate theses at Amherst College, and subsequently published by Viking (1987) in cloth and wrappers. Provenance: The American proof was acquired through the trade from the estate of Richard Elman, Wallace's writing instructor at the University of Arizona, who supplied the blurb which appeared both on the rear wrapper of the proof as well as the finished dustjacket for the First Edition.
Price: $6,500.00