SCARCE SIGNED ! SPACE FIRST / FIRST 1998 HB DW Lovely copy! by Jesse Lee Kercheval - 1998

Algonquin, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A., 1998. *** First edition and first printing with a full number line 10987654321 *** Signed by the author to the title page. Mustard cloth spine and black boards. By the author of The Museum of Happiness and The Dog Eater. Book looks possibly unread and is in near fine condition. All pages are present and correct and tightly bound. A clean copy which sits solid and square. Dustwrapper is near fine with light superficial surface shelfwear and signs of handling. Light wear to head and tail of spine otherwise near fine. Protected in a removable archival booksleeve to preserve its condition. 325 pp. A very tidy first printing copy in collectable condition which is scarce to find signed by the author. Synopsis: A memoir in the tradition of Frank Conroy's STOP TIME and Tobias Wolff's THIS BOY'S LIFE, SPACE is about growing up when America was on the brink of the big changes coming by way of Apollo 11, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE, and the Vietnam War. "Never has the space program been so charmingly brought down to earth than by this utterly beguiling girl . . . I was fascinated, enchanted, edified, and moved."--Gish Jen, author of TYPICAL AMERICAN; "The beauty of SPACE is that Kercheval engages all the senses with layered detail."--Swing; "An incandescent girlhood memoir . . . so lyrical and poignant are the events it chronicles, it is hard to believe that it wasn't all by design."--Booklist, starred. About the Author: Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of two books of fiction—a novel, The Museum of Happiness, and a collection of stories, The Dog Eater, winner of the prestigious AWP Award for Fiction. The recipient of fellowships from the NEA, Bread Loaf, and the Bunting Institute, she publishes her stories, articles, and poems in a broad range of literary magazines. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she lives with her husband and their young daughter. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. FIRST EDITION.