The World and Other Places [Signed]

London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. Stated First Edition. Octavo (19cm); 234pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with £14.99 price intact; boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine; black-and-white illustrated endsheets. Dust jacket shows minor bumping to top edge; otherwise clean. Spine shows minor bumping; otherwise clean with sharp corners. Endsheets clean. Textblock and interior pages clean. Binding sound. A Near Fine copy in like jacket. Signed and dated by Winterson without inscription on title page.

The World and Other Places, Winterson’s earliest collection, features seventeen short stories, several of which had already debuted in magazines like Elle and The New Yorker. Among them “The Poetics of Sex,” which centers the lesbian experience, a recurring theme in Winterson’s work. The collection was critically recognized for its postmodernist style.