Stoner

New York: Viking (1965). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 278 pp. Original quarter marigold cloth over chocolate paper-covered boards, stamped in brown, in original unclipped ($4.95) dust-jacket. Light shelf and handling wear. Trace toning to spine, trace foxing and toning to jacket flaps. Now protected in archival mylar. Book is tight and square. Light handling wear present. Light toning to page edges, light curling to spine ends. Light edge wear. Signed and inscribed by the author. Review Slip laid in. A collector's copy, scarce signed and with review materials.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“Stoner is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. It was reissued in 1972 by Pocket Books, in 2003 by Vintage and in 2006 by New York Review Books Classics with an introduction by John McGahern. Despite receiving little attention upon its publication in 1965, Stoner has seen a sudden surge of popularity and critical praise since its republication in the 2000s, championed by authors such as Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Bret Easton Ellis and John McGahern. In 2013 it was named Waterstones Book of the Year and The New Yorker called it "the greatest American novel you've never heard of."