Inscribed first printing of the first book from the Pulitzer-winning author of THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD and NICKEL BOYS.
Fine in near fine jacket.
Price: $300.00
"But who can resist the seductions of elevators these days, those stepping stones to Heaven, which make relentless verticality so alluring?"
Easily one of the most auspicious debuts of the 1990s, THE INTUITIONIST is a book whose description (an alternate universe of warring "Empiricist" and "Intuitionist" elevator inspectors) belies its achievement. Widely praised on release (Gary Kirst of the NEW YORK TIMES: "[an] ingenious and starkly original first novel"), Whitehead's racial allegory has only grown in stature in the wake of its author's subsequent successes. A modern classic.
First edition. New York: Anchor Books, 1999. 8'' x 5.5''. Quarter black cloth over grey boards. In unclipped ($19.95) original pictorial jacket designed by Calvin Chu. Mustard endpapers. [12], 256, [4] pages. Inscribed by Whitehead on the title page: "To Rochell! / thanks for coming! / Colson Whitehead." Bit faint creasing to front flap (likely production error). Else bright, tight, and sharp.
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