WHITE SANDS: EXPERIENCES FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD

New York City, NY: Pantheon Books, 2016. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Pantheon Books, 2016. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 240 pages. The author's travels-cum-places book. One of Geoff Dyer's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published simultaneously with the British Edition in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The production values of the book are superior in every respect. Presents Geoff Dyer's "White Sands: Experiences From The Outside World". Life-as-journey, life-as-pilgrimage, life as epiphany and discovery. His continuing homage-of-sorts to his literary mentor, D. H. Lawrence. "An expansive and exacting book. Firmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitive about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer's restless search - for what? - is unclear, even to him, as he continues in this series of fascinating adventures and pilgrimages: With a tour guide, who may not be a tour guide, in the Forbidden City; with friends in New Mexico, where D. H. Lawrence famously claimed to have had his 'greatest experience from the outside world'; with a hitchhiker picked up on the way from White Sands; with Don Cherry (or a photo of him, at any rate) at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. Weaving stories about places to which he has recently traveled with images and memories that have persisted since childhood, Dyer tries 'to work out what a certain place - a certain way of marking the landscape - means; what it's trying to tell us; what we go to it for" (Publisher's blurb). "One of our most original writers" (New York Magazine). An absolute "must-have" title for Geoff Dyer collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Geoff Dyer. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. His signature on this copy is superb. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is, quite simply, the most beautiful signed copy we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws (because of the easily soiled white DJ) or are subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 for "Otherwise Known As The Human Condition". One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GEOFF DYER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1101870850.