Description
The first American edition, first printing of Cleaned Out, signed by Annie Ernaux on a bookplate.
Octavo, 127pp, [1]. Gray cloth, title in white on spine. Stated “First American edition” on the copyright page. Clean copy, appears unread. In the publisher’s fine dust jacket, $19.95 on the front flap.
This copy is signed by Annie Ernaux on notecard laid into this copy.
The first edition of “Cleaned Out” was published in 1974 by Editions Gallimard of London, with the original title of “Les Armoires vides.”
In 2022, Annie Ernaux became the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, for the “courage and clinical acuity” with which she uncovers the roots and structures of personal memory. Her notable works include The Years, A Woman’s Story, and Happening.
