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Lot 237
Sale 6426 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Nov 13, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
WALLACE, David Foster (1962-2008). Infinite Jest. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
8vo. Original blue cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in silver; dust jacket. Provenance: David Bell (author's inscription).
FIRST EDITION, second printing, of Wallace's postmodern encyclopedic novel, which employs an unconventional narrative structure and an experimental use of endnotes (some 388 in all). INSCRIBED BY WALLACE on the title-page: "For David Bell with fond regards & thanks for 2-9-97, David Foster Wallace."
Property from a Private Collection, Atlanta, Georgia