Sketches For a Life Of Wassilly

Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1981. First Edition. First edition review copy signed by Lydia Davis on the title page. Unpaginated. Wraps. Fine. Review slip laid in. An uncommon early book by the American writer.

Barrytown: Station Hill, 1981. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 12mo. Near Fine copy in bound illustrated wrappers of this slender chapbook. Cover drawing by Alan Cote. Unpaginated. Scarce early title by this author.

Barrytown: Station Hill, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Signed by Davis on the title page. Very Good. Wraps generally toned and soiled, faintly rubbed at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Davis's story about "the doomed dreamer," favorably compared to the writing of Samuel Beckett.

Station Hill Press, 1981. Book. Very Good +. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Early chapbook by this noted author. "Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, "Davis's signal gift is… Read more about this item