Plus

New York: Knopf, (1977). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 216 pp. Original quarter navy cloth over rose paper-covered boards, stamped in gold. Unclipped ($8.95) jacket shows mild wear. A few front panel tears to jacket protected with tissue tape to reverse. Moderate rubbing, toning, handling and shelf wear. Book is tight, square and firm. Faint handling & shelf wear. Remainder mark to bottom text block. Small droplet to top text block. Interior clean and unmarked, sans pencil price erasure to top corner of ffep. Increasingly scarce.

Hardcover: Very Good

Dust Jacket: Very Good

“Plus is Joseph McElroy's fifth novel. Set in some unspecified future, it tells the story of Imp Plus, a disembodied brain controlling IMP, the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform, in earth orbit. The novel consists of Imp Plus's thoughts as he tries to comprehend his limited existence, while struggling with language, limited memories, and communicating with Ground Control. The plot is driven by Imp Plus's recall of fragments of his past and of language, his improving comprehension of his present, all while his medical condition gradually deteriorates.”