Houellebecq, Michel; Gavin Bowd (Trans.)
The Possibility of an Island, a Novel ; [First Edition, First Printing]
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First American Edition. Hardcover. pp. 337. Royal 8vo. measuring 6.5" x 9.5". Publisher's quarter black, and terracotta boards, gilt lettering to the spine; untrimmed page edges. Exceptionally well-preserved with no detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; fine and housed in fine, original, unclipped dustjacket bearing the original price of $24.95 USD (dustjacket now housed in protective mylar cover). Copyright pages states: "First American Edition". An exceptional copy of this groundbreaking work of literature, and the magnum-opus of the renowned, yet controversial, Michel Houellebecq. Fine. .

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