The Broom of the System

New York: Viking, (1987). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 467 pp. Original quarter black cloth over teal paper-covered boards, stamped in teal, in original unclipped ($18.95) dust-jacket. As new. Faint rubbing and edge wear, particular to corners. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Perhaps unread. Trivial edge wear, if any. Light curling to spine ends. One of only 1,300 copies. An excellent example, a collector’s copy.

Dust Jacket: Fine

Hardcover: Fine

“Wallace submitted the novel as one of two undergraduate honors theses at Amherst College, the other being a paper on Richard Taylor's fatalism. David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine cited as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. His posthumous novel, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012. The Los Angeles Times's David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years".