8vo. 517pp, [1]. Original publisher's black cloth-backed powder blue paper boards, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear. A fine copy.

The first edition of Jonathan Franzen's (b. 1959) debut novel. A complex thriller that studies a family unraveling under intense pressure, set amidst intricate political conspiracy and financial upheaval in St. Louis, Missouri, in the year 1984.