AMERICAN RUST: WITH ADVANCE EXCERPT IN MCSWEENEY'S #18 ISSUE

New York City, NY: Spiegel & Grau, 2009. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Spiegel & Grau, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 370 pages. Rare Phillip Meyer collectible set. Fine copies of "American Rust" and "One Day This Will All Be Yours" Advance Excerpt in McSweeney's Issue # 18, signed by Philipp Meyer. "American Rust": The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most important literary debuts of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a small press. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Philipp Meyer's "American Rust". The concrete, specific truth about the "forgotten" America, long before the paradigm became a national political and cultural obsession. "Set in a beautiful but dying Pennsylvania steel town, 'American Rust' is a novel of the lost American Dream and the desperation that arises from its loss. It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them, who dream of a future beyond the factories, abandoned homes, and the polluted river. An extraordinarily moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us" (Publisher's blurb). "One Day This Will All Be Yours" Advance Excerpt appears on Pages 87 through 96 of McSweeney's Issue # 18. Marks the very first appearance of the author in published form. Published in 2005, it precedes his full-length debut novel by four years. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, set for Philipp Meyer collectors. This copy of "American Rust" is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Philipp Meyer. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Meyer's signature on this copy is the best we have ever seen. It comes with a copy of McSweeney's Issue # 18, his very first appearance in published form, also very boldly and beautifully signed in blue pen-marker on his Contribution ("One Day This Will All Be Yours") by the author. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy (with Signed Advance Excerpt) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed set thus. "American Rust" is widely regarded as a contemporary American classic. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine collectible set. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIPP MEYER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0385527519.