DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM

New York City, NY: Little, Brown & Company, 2004. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Little, Brown & Company, 2004. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 257 pages. The author's fifth collection of short stories and essays. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Features a stunningly beautiful DJ design by Chip Kidd. Presents David Sedaris' "Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim". The threshold of maturity as America's most pungent, most perceptive, and most popular social commentator and humorist. "Sedaris has a satirical brazenness that holds up next to Twain and Nathanael West" (The New Yorker Magazine). Once a cult figure, Sedaris now has broad mainstream appeal. The idea of civilized pleasure - especially, humor - should not just be valued but avidly pursued by all of us, if possible: Life-as-surplus, where the only life worth living is the useless and unnecessary life of leisure, which is also the theme of Woody Allen's great New York films, and in his more down-to-earth manner, is also the reason we like and love David Sedaris. Sedaris continues to use his utterly dysfunctional Greek-immigrant family as the basis for his work. An absolute "must-have" title for David Sedaris collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "To Alan + Sue, David Sedaris". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipients, who are named, obtained the signature in person. It is also vividly imprinted by Sedaris with a red rubber stamp-greeting from Thailand, a brilliant Sedaris touch: He had just returned from Thailand and brought back with him the stamp. Sedaris used the latter occasionally and only for this title, making it vintage and special. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and stamped copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DAVID SEDARIS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0316143464.