A Model World & Other Stories by Michael Chabon [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING] 1991

A Model World and Other Stories by Michael Chabon FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1991] WILLIAM MORROW & CO. Hardcover w/ dust jacket in very good condition.    Light shelf / edge wear to an otherwise very nice dust jacket.  Book itself has some discoloration to boards / cloth.  Contents read like new. From the wondrously talented author of Wonder Boys comes a magnificent collection of ironic, understated tales that confirm his reputation as "the young star of American letters." -- Washington Post Book World. Here are eleven superb stories about growing up and growing wise -- stories in which people attempt to create and inhabit their own model worlds, only to watch them collapse in the face of the real world.