David Foster Wallace 215484 — Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - [Uncorrected advance proof]

Little, Brown and Compan, 1999, 1e druk, Original light-blue printed wrappers, Uncorrected advance proof, preceding the first published edition of Wallace's second collection of short fiction. Issued by Little, Brown for review purposes before publication on 28 May 1999, with the front wrapper giving the projected publication details, price, ISBN and a provisional extent of “288T”; the proof itself is paginated to p. 273. The publisher's notice at the end explicitly identifies the volume as “uncorrected advance proofs” and cautions reviewers to consult the finished book when quoting from it. The collection followed Infinite Jest (1996) and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997), and includes “The Depressed Person”, “Adult World”, “Octet” and the recurring sequence of “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men”., Goed