In the Penny Arcade by Steven Millhauser [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1985 • Knopf

In the Penny Arcade: Stories by Steven Millhauser

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1985] ALFRED A. KNOPF

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  

Dust jacket is excellent; like new with mild shelf wear.  Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book itself reads like new with deckle edged pages.

The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from 'August Eschenburg', the story of a clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supersedes that of the refined and beautiful, to 'Cathay', a kingdom whose wonders include landscape paintings executed on the bodies of court ladies.