WAR OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDISTS

New York City, NY: Scribner, 2015. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Scribner, 2015. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 435 pages. The authors' breakthrough novel. 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. "Signed By The Author" red sticker pasted in front. Presents Christopher Robinson's and Gavin Kovite's "War of The Encyclopaedists". A thrilliang and accomplished collaborative debut. "Two major new talents join their voices to tell the story of a generation at a crossroads, and a friendship that stretches over continents and crises, from the liberal arena of Boston academia to the military occupation of Iraq. On a summer night, in the arty enclave of Capitol Hill, Seattle, best friends Mickey Montauk and Halifax Corderoy throw one last blowout party before their lives part ways. At twenty-three, they had planned to move together to Boston for graduate school, but global events have intervened: Montauk has just learned that his National Guard unit will deploy to Baghdad at the end of the summer. In the confusion of this altered future, Corderoy is faced with a moral dilemma: His girlfriend Mani has just been evicted, and he must decide whether or not to abandon her when she needs him most. He turns to Montauk for help. His decision that night, and its harrowing outcome, sets in motion a year that will transform all three of them. Beats with the energetic pulse of idealistic youth on the threshold of adult reality" (Publisher's blurb). "A wise and wise-assed first novel. With sweep and heart and humor" (Mary Karr). An absolute "must-have" title for Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite collectors. This Autographed Copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed 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. Two of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 1476775427.