MICHAEL CHABON. — Wonder Boys. A novel. (SIGNED)

Fourth Estate, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the American edition. This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 368pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A trace of bruising to the backstrip ends, and a discreet inkstamp to the bottom edge. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper with a hint of very light creasing to several extremities. The author's third book and second novel, a partly autobiographical tale woven around Chabon's failure to complete his as-yet unrealised novel 'Fountain City', with the main character inspired by his University of Pittsburgh processor Chuck Kinder whose own novel detailing his friendship with Raymond Carver ballooned to some 3,000 pages before finally appearing in a considerably reduced version as 'Honeymooners: A Cautionary Tale' in 2001., Near Fine, Near Fine