Stoner.
“In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense": First Edition of Stoner; Inscribed by John Williams
Stoner.
WILLIAMS, John.
Item Number: 99469
New York: The Viking Press, 1965.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Nancy, with much affection, from the other Williams- John.” From the library of Larry McMurtry with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Fine in an excellent dust jacket with some toning to the spine. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional association.
John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world. “One of the great unheralded 20th-century American novels …Almost perfect" (Bret Easton Ellis).
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