So yes it needs some love to breathe new life into it but considering how rare true first printings in first state DJs are it is worth the investment. No stamps, writing or anything else other than noted. Slight lean first few pages have faint wave at edge. Half-title page has a small address label size outline scratch. Slightest faint bleed from navy endpapers not bad. The front pastedown is clean the FFEP is a 1 inch stub from top to bottom. Rear endpapers are bright and clean only faint taper-ghost outline and navy blue endpapers hide it well. The panels are clean aside from still-sticky tape ghosts that can be neutralized.
This copy has been set aside for years waiting for me to get around to sending it for some restorative love but have decided to list it until I get around to it. The DJ is Fine only flaw keeping this from As-New status is mild toning to spine. Stated First Edition in the rare first printing with a full numberline 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Original first issue jacket in super-rare first state without the publisher's seal on the spine. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. As Art Spiegelman explains in his new introduction, David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik 'created a strange doppelganger of the original book' and 'a breakthrough work.' Paul Auster's Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language. 'This reflected, shattered Glass introduces a whole new set of resonances to Auster's story, about the things images can and can't represent when language fails Miraculously, it deepens the darkness and power of its source.' Publisher's Weekly, Starred ReviewCity of Glass, the first part of Paul Auster's seminal work, The New York Trilogy, is perhaps the quintessential Auster story - an exploration of identity and language, whose narrative is kick-started by a random act of chance: 'It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not 'In the expert hands of David Mazzuchelli (Batman), Paul Karasik (Raw) and Art Spiegelman (Maus), Auster's dark and brilliant spin on the detective story has been given a unique and unexpected new life.
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