Omensetter's Luck

New York: New American Library, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), bumped at the bottom edge and head of spine, rubbed on the back panel. Black cloth with blue paper on the boards, a touch of fading at the top edge. Square and firmly bound with a faint green top stain, a small triangle of darkening on the middle of the outer edge of the text block. Gass' first novel. The story of Brackett Omensetter and the violence that ensues after his arrival in a once-tranquil small town. According to David Foster Wallace, this is Gass' "least avant-gardeish, and his best" work ("Overlooked").