First edition. Sm. 4to. Pp. [vi], 456, [1]. Quarter-bound black cloth over light grey paper-boards, stamped in copper to spine; grey endpapers. Author's Note. Deckled fore-edges. Jacket design by Neil Stuart (produced for the UK market and priced at £11.95 to front flap).
Signed by DeLillo to title page. Foxing specks to top edge, sunning to dustwrapper spine, as is common with this title, else fine.
Author's ninth novel. 1/50,0000 first printing. Excerpts were originally published in Esquire magazine. Nominated for the 1988 National Book Award. Winner of the 1989 Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. Selected as one of the 25 best American novels of the last quarter-century by the editors of the New York Times Book Review in 2006. Speculative fiction homing in on events leading up to John F. Kennedy's assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald: "This is a work of imagination. While drawing from the historical record, I've made no attempt to furnish factual answers to any questions raised by the assassination."
"DeLillo's novel is like a stop-motion frame of the crossfire, a still picture of an awful moment. [His] prose has a quality of demented lyricism." –The New Yorker