Binding: Full-Leather
Book Condition: As New
Edition: Limited/Numbered Edition
Size: 8vo; Signed by Author
Publisher: Unicycle Press, 1998, Media, PA
ISBN: 0966466101
Illustrator: Illustrated by Ziegenhagen-Slick, Paula (Illustrator)

[Book #12883]

A special First US Edition, limited to 1,200 copies preceding the US trade edition, SIGNED by author John Irving on the limitation page. A wonderful scarce book, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap, fully bound in black leather, distinctive gilded cover and spine design. An impeccable collectible;

John Irving's deeply affecting novel about a family marked with tragedy, centering around the complex, often self-contradictory character of celebrated writer Ruth Cole. The portrait begins with Ruth being four years old and closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother.

Basis for the major motion picture "The Door in the Floor" starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger