Stoner

New York: Viking (1965). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 278 pp. Original quarter marigold cloth over chocolate paper-covered boards, stamped in brown. Book is mostly tight, with mild lean but firm. Handling wear present. Corners lightly bumped & rubbed. Toning to page edges with light foxing. Abrasion/nick to panel fore edge. Light curling to spine ends with light vertical crease to spine cloth. Old pencil price notation & star stamped to front paste down - likely a remainder mark as well as a few marker scribes to the top and bottom text block.

Dust Jacket: Missing, None

Hardcover: Good

“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."