Mating / A Thousand Acres by Norman Rush, Jane Smiley - 1991

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1991 Two booklets in pictorial, paper slipcase, 45pp each. Advance excerpts for the First Edition printing of Mating and A Thousand Acres. Books in Fine condition with light creasing, in a good slipcase.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Softcover. Promotional item including excerpts of both titles, in a slipcase, and still in original shrink wrap. .

New York: Knopf. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Wraps, advance excerpts from forthcoming books, fine in fine cardboard sllipcase, shrinkwrapped as issued. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Knopf, 1991. Advance excerpts for the then forthcoming novels. Two booklets issued together in decorative cardstock slipcase in the publisher's original shrinkwrap (unopened). Unused and in Fine condition. A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer & Mating won the National Book Award in '91.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Advance Reader's Excerpt.The image is of the book described and not a stock photo.

New York: Knopf, 1991. First edition thus. Paperback. A fine copy. Advance excerpts, signed by each author, in shrinkwrap, and housed in the original publisher's decorated slipcase. 'Mating' by Norman Rush won the National Book Award. A first-person narrative by an unnamed American anthropology graduate student in Botswana around 1980. Jane Smiley's 'A Thousand Acres' won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was adapted into a 1997 film. The novel is a modernized retelling of Shakespeare's Kind Lear and is set on a thousand acre (four hundred hectares) farm in Iowa that is owned by a family of a father and his three daughters. It is told through the point of view of the oldest daughter, Ginny. From the literary library of Robert & Enid Cohen.

NY: KNOPF.. Fine. 1991. First Edition. Specially produced Advance Excerpts. (Not the complete texts of the books) Each copy is fine in stapled wrappers with a silver enclosure sheet holding them together & laid-into a pictorial card case. "A Thousand Acres" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and "Mating" the National Book Award. (B) .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First edition. Two advanced excerpts from these prize winning novels. Smiley's novel won the Pulitzer Prize and Rush won the National Book Award. A very near fine set in illustrated paper wrappers (the Rush volume has a tiny nick at the top of the spine) and in a fine paper slipcase. The Smiley volume is signed by her on the title page. Uncommon.