ALL MY PUNY SORROWS

San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2014. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed, slipcased first edition of Toews's sixth novel, a family tragedy which won the 2014 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, specially issued as part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna Tartt, J.M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Siri Hustvedt) and publishing (McSweeney's, Graywolf, Algonquin). Installments commonly include a signed and slipcased recent release, as well as one or more promotional titles (usually ARCs or the like, but sometimes advance excerpts). 8'' x 5.5''. Original teal and orange boards. In original orange pictorial dust jacket by Sunra Thompson. In original black and teal cloth slipcase. 317, [3] pages. With original INDIESPENSABLE booklet. Signed by Toews on title page. Jacket spine faintly sunned.