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WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER. 1962-2008. The Broom of the System. New York: Viking, (1987). image 1
WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER. 1962-2008. The Broom of the System. New York: Viking, (1987). image 2
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WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER. 1962-2008.
The Broom of the System. New York: Viking, (1987).

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WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER. 1962-2008.

The Broom of the System. New York: Viking, (1987). 8vo. Publisher's black-cloth backed aqua boards, spine stamped in aqua and lettered in blind, original collage dust-jacket, spine lightly rubbed, jacket spine lightly faded.

FIRST EDITION OF WALLACE'S FIRST BOOK, SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE. Published when he was just 24 years old, Wallace's debut was composed as one of two undergraduate honors theses at Amherst College; the other was in the philosophy department. A NEAR FINE COPY, called by Caryn James in the New York Times, "...a manic, human, flawed extravaganza."

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There are two passages underlined in ink at pp 188/189.

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