The Stepford Wives
by Ira Levin
Suntup Editions
2023
Numbered - 255/350 (does not include number rights)
includes promotional bookmark

Pristine, like-new condition. Only removed from the plastic wrap to take pictures for this listing.

From Suntup's description of the edition:

The idyllic village of Stepford, Connecticut is an affluent suburban town populated with successful, satisfied hubbies and their beautiful, dutiful wives. For photographer Joanna Eberhart, a recent arrival with her husband and two children, it all seems too perfect to be true–from the sweet, accommodating Welcome Wagon lady to all those cheerful, friendly faces in the supermarket checkout lines. But just beneath the town’s flawless surface, something is sordid and wrong–something abominable with roots in the local Men’s Association. And it may already be too late for Joanna to save herself from being devoured by Stepford’s hideous perfection.

A savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon. First published in September 1972, The Stepford Wives was referred to by one reviewer as “an extraordinary feminist horror novel. Ira Levin powerfully dramatizes women’s suburban alienation and men’s resistance to feminist change.”

  • 6” x 9” trim size.
  • 162 pages.
  • Limited to 350 copies.
  • Signed by Peter Straub and Laurie Lee Brom.
  • Bradel binding with a leather spine and cloth over boards.
  • Spine is Italian patent leather with a high gloss embossed alligator pattern.
  • Introduction by Peter Straub. 
  • Six full color oil painting illustrations by Laurie Lee Brom.
  • Endsheets and inset cover label are Canson Mi-Teintes.
  • Head & tail bands are handmade with Chieftain goatskin from J. Hewit & Sons.
  • Printed letterpress on a Heidelberg Cylinder, with two colors on the title, introduction and chapter pages.
  • Chapter openings include a halftone image printed letterpress with the text.
  • Printed on Neenah 100% cotton paper.
  • Housed in a cloth covered clamshell enclosure.

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