Death Kit by Sontag: Signed (8 results)

SIGNED by author on endpaper. Octavo, softcover, near fine in light green pictorial wraps. "Sontag's second novel is a classic of modern fiction as well as brilliant exploration of the recesses of the American conscience." . "In 'Death Kit' Susan Sontag has written a terrifying black novel with the fierce unsettling thrust of a Kafkaesque fable. It is a truly awesome book, forged from a stark in which staccato sentences and near-documentary observations are fused into a brilliantly sustained style." - Boston Globe. 312 pp. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good first edition inscribed by Sontag on the title page. Pages clean and bright. Bumping to spine ends. Front hinge slightly loose. Few places of very minor wear to front and back boards. Very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Some general age toning. Very minor bumping to spine ends, edges. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. Good in a poor dustwrapper with the rear flap trimmed. Signed by the author, and with the ownership stamp of author Andrew Delbanco on the front flap. Author's third book, a novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1967. Sontag, Susan "Death Kit." Signed by Sontag on title page, very good or better copy. Black paper over white cloth, printed cover with lettering in stencil effect. Some sunning at the edges to the boards, minor chipping along DJ at the top of spine. Jacket protected in mylar sleeve. Price unclipped but crossed out in pen. 311 pp. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 312 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$5.75." General shelf wear. Mild tearing to bottom edge of dust jacket. Mild age toning to dust jacket. Rubbing to head and tail of book spine. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Stain to fore edge of textblock. Signed flat by Sontag on title page. DL Consignment. Shelved in Case 7. 1393469. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

First Edition. First Printing. Signed bookplate loosely laid-in. Octavo (21.5cm); white backstrip over black paper-covered boards, titled in black on the spine; dustjacket; 312pp.; spine ends pushed; mild foxing/soil to textblock; very faint small spot of dampstain to lower edge of first 10 pages, Very Good+. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.75), slightly toned on spine panel, edge-worn with several small tears and chips; Good. A presentable copy of Sontag's second published novel. The signature is on a generic blank bookplate, loosely laid into the book at front endpaper. Signed. …

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Susan Sontag on the half title. [viii], 312pp. Bound in publisher's black paper boards with white cloth spine lettered in black. Very Good+ with light sunning to top edges of boards, light edges wear. Contents bright and clean. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with toning to rear cover, light rubbing overall. A crisp copy. Sontag's second novel, her very American take on the French nouveau-roman. Signed. …

First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to her publisher on the half-title, "For Bob, with love and with thanks for your generous encouragement, Susan, Aug 1967". This is a premier association, illustrating the warm relationship between one of the most notable essayists of the 20th century and Robert Giroux, the "Golden Boy of publishing" (Kachka). Although Sontag later developed "an almost conspiratorial alliance" (Gottlieb) with Roger Farrar, Giroux was her first introduction to the behemoth publishing firm. Their first meeting was a memorable one. In 1961, Sontag walked into Giroux's office, "presented him with the partial manuscript of a convoluted dream narrative, and said, 'Jason Epstein told me you're the only editor in New York who will understand my novel'". Sontag became one of the firm's most illustrious names. Death Kit was Sontag's second novel, "one of the most interesting and successful experimental novels to appear in the 1960s", in the tradition of "the dream tale of Kafka or Borges, or the nightmarish works of Djuna Barnes, John Hawkes, and Anaïs Nin" (McCaffery). Robert Gottleib, "Anatomy of a Publisher", The New Yorker, 5 August 2013; Larry McCaffery, "Death Kit: Susan Sontag's Dream Narrative", Contemporary Literature, vol. 20, no. 4, 1979; Boris Kachka, Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013. Octavo. Original white paper-backed black boards, spine lettered in black, black endpapers. With dust jacket. Shelf mark "3157" written in manuscript at head and foot of spine, ends rubbed, spine and top edge faintly foxed; jacket toned, rear fold foxed, spine ends and corners lightly creased and nicked, unclipped. A near-fine copy in like jacket.…