Marilynne Robinson

Housekeeping

Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1980. 8vo, quarter blue cloth over teal paper boards, gilt titles, 219pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (10.95) moderately rubbed to panels, toned to flaps. Ownership signature to front endpaper, trace of fading to board edges, light bump to lower corners. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The celebrated debut novel by the American writer, a lyric prose epic about two orphans growing up in rural Idaho. Jacket art by Robert Sabin, with rear panel blurbs by John Hawkes, Doris Lessing, and Walker Percy. Adapted into a film by Bill Forsyth in 1987. A nearly fine copy in mylar.

Price: $225.00