Description
Signed first edition of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon.
Octavo, 639pp. Cream hardcover, title in gilt on cloth spine. Stated “First Edition” on copyright page with publisher’s full number line. Fine text block, appears unread. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $26.95 retail price on front flap. Signed by the author on the title page with an additional illustration of a key.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay tells the story of two Jewish cousins, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, and their contributions to the Golden Age of comic books during the chaos of World War II. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001, and is considered by the New York Review of Books of be Chabon’s “magnum opus” (2007).
