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Hardcover, bound in full genuine brown gilt-stamped leather binding. 531 pages. Brand new copy in factory shrink-wrap. A quality Easton Press production with all the refinements that go to make this a truly fine binding: bound in satin ribbon marker, all edges gilt, raised spine, 22kt gold stamping, smyth-sewn binding, silk moire end-papers, acid free archival paper and full genuine leather binding. Limited First, signed and numbered edition, one of 1,100 copies published by Easton Press, 1998. Signed by Joyce Carol Oates.. Customarily laid-in are a COA (Certificate of Authenticity), Collector’s Notes and blank unused Easton Press book-plate, (unverified as this copy is still in the original shrink wrap).. One of Oates darker novels about “,,,a family of swindlers, following several generations of men and women as they exploit human greed, love, or just plain gullibility, all in the name of the game. Occasionally, they help things along with a murder.” [WorldCat Summary]. A pristine copy, gift quality, new in shrink wrap.