Plain Normal by James Wilcox, Signed (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. James Wilcox is justly famous for his first novel, Modern Baptists. He is under-appreciated these days. Plain and Normal is his 7th book. Signed copy of the first printing. Full number line. Price on jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Appears unread. Good book at a great price point. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. SIGNED by the author on the title-page.

Condition: Used: Very Good. SIGNED by author. VG++ book & jacket.

Signed. First Edition. Full number line 1-10. Unread, unclipped, and unmarked. Additional images available upon request. (see attached photos).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed and dated by author on title page. Bright, sharp copy in a likewise (not clipped) DJ in Mylar wrap. Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking. Signed by Author.

Hardcovers. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Trade. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Wilcox on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Wilcox's seventh novel. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Condition: Fine. Signed, 1st ed.; fine condition, DJ fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 277 pages. Published in 1998. The author's seventh novel. One of James Wilcox's finest achievements. 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 James Wilcox's "Plain And Normal". How to write a great "gay" novel if you are a "versatile" straight writer. "Severinus Lloyd Norris strives for a life of stasis amidst an emergent midlife crisis brought on less by age than by the people in his life. Pearl May, his beautiful wife of over 20 years, has just divorced him, and has been encouraging Lloyd to come out of the closet and eventually, out of their shared home in Yonkers. Lloyd fights with all his heart to live a plain and normal life. With a supporting cast of characters, he doesn't stand a chance. This satiric romp on the pains of growing older should attract new readers to one of the late-20th century's smartest comic novelists" (Kera Bolonik). It is a crying shame that James Wilcox's entire body of work has not received the kind of universal recognition that it so richly deserves, otherwise accorded too many inferior, undeserving writers, products of American media hype. The reason is that he writes social comedy - there is no other kind in literature - which is looked down upon as the lesser art, not to be taken seriously, except, of course, by readers and critics who do take literature seriously. An absolute "must-have" title for James Wilcox collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by James Wilcox. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of 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, are in subsequent editions, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. "Modern Baptists" is regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the canonical works of the 20th century. One of the finest writers of the 20th century and our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMES WILCOX TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0316940267. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

8vo, 276pp. A very good hardback copy in like slightly rubbed d/j with an authographed copy sticker to the front. Signed by the author on the title page.