First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original quarter blue cloth with lighter blue boards, titles in gilt to spine, with the dust jacket. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase with chemise. New York, Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1980.
Inscribed by the author to the title page.
A finalist for the Pulitzer prize for fiction Marylinne Robinson’s novel was awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel.
With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the title page, ‘For Glenn Horowitz with dearest thanks Marilynne Robinson’. One of the great novels of its era and distinctly uncommon in presentation state.
A superb copy in the dust jacket
