MCELROY, Joseph

Women and Men: A Novel [Uncorrected Proof Copy, Signed]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986 [1987]. First Edition. First Printing. Two octavo volumes (21.5cm); original yellow card wrappers, with titles printed in black, and publisher's printed labels tape onto front covers; [xi],[3],4-602,[2]; 603-1204,[4]pp. Signed by the author on the title page of Vol.1, with each volume bearing two publisher's folded promotional sheets stapled to the inner front covers. Gentle sunning to spines, some trivial dust-soil to text edges and wrappers, with a faint mark to upper edge of textblock on Vol.2, and a few holograph notes (in ink) done in house on the spine and front wrapper of Vol.2; contents clean; Near Fine.

McElroy's sixth novel, centered around "the lives (twined by sexual confusion, urban stress, and political or paranoid complication, granted) of the occupants of one lower Manhattan apartment building" (Kirkus Reviews). A mammoth work, of such a size that Knopf was forced to assume (at some expense) the production of proofs in two volumes, done in numbers that were almost certainly smaller than a standard one-volume production. This set is one of fewer than a handful we've seen signed or inscribed.

Price: $1,500.00

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