Darconville's Cat, Alexander Theroux
First edition, second printing of Theroux's second novel, nominated for the National Book Award and a perpetually underappreciated literary masterpiece.
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1981. Publisher's original black cloth boards, titled in gilt; pp. xi, [3], 704, [1]. A very good copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding firm, light shelfwear and rubbing to boards, faint remainder spray to bottom edge of text block. Minor crease to the first few pages, else internally clean and fine. Jacket shows some general shelfwear, scratch to front panel and a few closed tears, reinforced with tape on the inside. Protected in archival mylar.