Libra by Delillo Don, Signed (3 results)

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. First edition. Sm. 4to. Pp. [vi], 456, [1]. Quarter-bound black cloth over light grey paper-boards, stamped in copper to spine; grey endpapers. Author's Note. Deckled fore-edges. Jacket design by Neil Stuart (produced for the UK market and priced at £11.95 to front flap). Signed by DeLillo to title page. Foxing specks to top edge, sunning to dustwrapper spine, as is common with this title, else fine. Author's ninth novel. 1/50,0000 first printing. Excerpts were originally published in Esquire magazine. Nominated for the 1988 National Book Award. Winner of the 1989 Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. Selected as one of the 25 best American novels of the last quarter-century by the editors of the New York Times Book Review in 2006. Speculative fiction homing in on events leading up to John F. Kennedy's assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald: "This is a work of imagination. While drawing from the historical record, I've made no attempt to furnish factual answers to any questions raised by the assassination." "DeLillo's novel is like a stop-motion frame of the crossfire, a still picture of an awful moment. [His] prose has a quality of demented lyricism." -The New Yorker. signed.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Excelente. 1ª Edición. Finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award, del The New York Times Best Books of the Year y del National Book Award del año 1988. Premio Aer Lingus International Fiction del año 1989. PRIMERA EDICIÓN. FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING. EXCELENTE ejemplar DEDICADO por el autor / DEDICATED by the author. Editado en tapa blanda, con solapas, en perfecto estado de conservación. Título original "Libra". Traducción de Margarita Cavándoli. Detrás del asesinato de John F. Kennedy se esconde una compleja conspiración internacional cuya cabeza visible es Lee Harvey Oswald, pero detrás de Oswald hay un niño problemático con un atormentado mundo interior, un joven cuyos ideales entran constantemente en conflicto con la realidad que los niega. Interior impecable. 395 pp + Índice + Biografía del autor. Dedicatoria autógrafa del auto.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); light grey paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in copper on spine, and decorations embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; [vi],[2]-456,[2]pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page to New York bookseller Burt Britton: "To Burt Britton / Best ever / Don DeLillo." Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $19.95), with some gentle sunning to the orange panel on spine. Attractive copy of DeLillo's ninth novel, a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, in which he describes the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and his participation in a fictional CIA conspiracy to assassinate JFK. Britton (1933-2018) was a long-time fixture at The Strand and subsequently at Books and Co., beloved by the author's he befriended and whose works he promoted a real fixture in the New York book scene. He and DeLillo were friends with a shared interest: New York baseball. DeLillo inscriptions with any substantive connection seldom appear in the marketplace.