Jamaique

1983 · 23143 — New York City NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket. New York City NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 82 pages. The author's breakthrough debut collection of short stories. One of the most important American literary debuts of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jamaica Kincaid's "At The Bottom of The River: Stories". Her slim yet spectacular debut still her best book thus far: Deceptively simple stories that evoke and recreate an Edenic rural childhood in the West Indies Antigua in a way that is fully alive and truly universal. Like every serious reader of literature a reader from the East Indies Asia-Pacific will relate to and relish Kincaid's vivid memories. "More thrilling than any prose I've read in the last few years by a writer from this continent" Susan Sontag. An absolute "must-have" title for Jamaica Kincaid collectors. This copy is very prominently neatly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Jamaica Kincaid. It is signed directly on the page itself not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great collection. This is one of very few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean crisp and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws "price-clipped" is pandemic are subsequent printings or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest writers of our time. A fine copy. SEE ALSO OTHER JAMAICA KINCAID TITLES IN OUR CATALOG. ISBN 0374106606. Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover