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. Edge wear, mild sunning to jacket - particular to spine. Some wrinkling to edges, particular to spine, jacket rubbing and handling wear. Chipping and small tears, some light loss. Protected in archival mylar. Book is sound, with mild forward lean but still moderately firm. Wear to panels and edges with rubbing along the panels - particular to spine crown and foot, and corners. Interior with library remnants, stamps, etc. Dry tape reside from mylar holding jacket to boards. A few bumps to panel edges and bottom corners. Although an ex-library book, still very rare and sought after. One of only 1,300 copies.

Dust Jacket: Acceptable

Hardcover: Acceptable

“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".