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FIRST EDITION OF AMERICANA, HIS FIRST NOVEL, INSCRIBED BY DON DELILLO

DELILLO, Don. Americana. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket.

First edition of DeLillo’s first novel, inscribed on the half title, “To Laura Keller, Best ever, Don DeLillo.”

“Nearly every sentence of Americana rings true,” observed Joyce Carol Oates (Detroit News). “Don DeLillo’s swift, ironic witty cross-country American nightmare doesn’t have a dull or unoriginal line” (Nelson Algren, Rolling Stone). In an interview, DeLillo called Americana his “private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture” (Begley, 1993). Recipient Laura Keller is a faculty member in the University of Toledo English Department.

Book fine, light foxing to verso of original dust jacket. An exceptional about-fine copy, scarce inscribed.