You Shall Know Our Velocity

First UK edition. 8vo. 350 pp. Quarter-bound black cloth over grey card stock boards, lettered in white along spine and front cloth strip. Book's opening lines printed directly onto the upper cover, then continuing over the front endpapers. Scarlet rear endpapers. Copyright details to rear pastedown. Illustrated with colour photographs and b/w drawings.

Signed in black felt-tipped pen by the author to rear free endpaper. As issued, w/out dust-wrapper, and barcode sticker to rear panel. Sharp tip ends.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 2002. The author's debut novel, portions of which were excerpted in The New Yorker. Originally published in 2002 by McSweeney's, San Francisco, in an edition of 50,000 copies, 10,000 of which were made available through the author's website.

Globe-trotting philanthropic pals are frustrated at every turn in their naïve efforts to redistribute an inherited largesse on ungrateful natives. A, possibly unintended, Bushite foreign policy satire. "Velocity achieves a kind of anguished, profane poetry." –Newsweek