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Sedaris, David : Naked

Little, Brown & Company, Boston, MA, 1997

ISBN 0316779490

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 291 pages. The author's second collection of essays and short stories, presented as a memoir. Now considered a contemporary classic. 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. The First Edition is now scarce. The book design/production by Chip Kidd is now also considered a classic: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. The suggestive "naked" of the title turns out to be an X-ray image in front. Text by David Sedaris. In mid-sized pictorial DJ, which covers the X-ray image, and titles on the spine, as issued. Presents David Sedaris' "Naked". His most celebrated family memoir. "Sedaris has fashioned a memoir of his wonderfully offbeat life. To call his family 'dysfunctional' would be enormous understatement and beside the point. Sedaris's relatives and other companions become vital characters on the page. Sedaris' humor is wickedly irreverent but not mean. Travelling with him is well worth it for the laughs and for his generous human sensibility" (Library Journal). "I recently made the mistake of reading David Sedaris while I was eating lunch. Fortunately, I was alone in my office, so there were no witnesses when I spewed a mouthful of pastrami across my desk. Not one of the 17 autobiographical essays in this collection failed to make me crack up. Frequently, I was helpless" (Craig Seligman). An absolute "must-have" title for David Sedaris collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen on the title page by the author: "With the pleasure of meeting you. Love, David Sedaris". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient is named. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Sedaris is a genuine rarity among superstar-writers: He spends time with every single person who has taken the trouble of going to his reading and waiting patiently in line to get his or her book signed. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DAVID SEDARIS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0316779490.

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