Signed Percival Everett James First Edition 2024 Doubleday

Description

Percival Everett has spent decades building a reputation as one of the most inventive and intellectually fearless writers in American fiction—often mentioned alongside figures like Ralph Ellison and Ishmael Reed for his ability to interrogate identity, history, and narrative form itself. With James, Everett steps directly into the American canon and rewrites it from within.

A reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from Jim’s perspective, James is both literary event and cultural intervention—at once brutal, funny, and formally sharp. The novel has already drawn major critical attention and award recognition, positioning it as one of the defining works of contemporary American literature. There are confirmed copies out there at least as high as a 25th printing, which, for a novel just a few years old, is very uncommon.  And signed copies of modern literary breakouts—especially publisher-issued signed firsts—tend to tighten quickly as readership expands. Doubleday did not state a limitation for this signed issue, and true first printings did not linger.

A clean signed first of Everett’s most talked-about book, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction, as well as the Kirkus Prize for Fiction; and don’t forget finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction!