The Familiar #1: One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z. Danielewski [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2015

The Familiar #1 - One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z. Danielewski FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2015] PANTHEON *Stated first edition w. full number line.  Large heavyweight trade paperback with front and rear panels, sewn-in silken bookmark and windowed cover w/ stepback page beneath.  Book is in very good condtion.  The last dozen or so page bottoms at rear of book have mild wrinkling [see last photo] due to subtle water damage.   Otherwise, excellent. From the author of the international best seller House of Leaves and National Book Award–nominated Only Revolutions comes a monumental new novel as dazzling as it is riveting.  The Familiar (Volume 1) ranges from Mexico to Southeast Asia, from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, with nine lives hanging in the balance, each called upon to make a terrifying choice. They include a therapist-in-training grappling with daughters as demanding as her patients; an ambitious East L.A. gang member contracted for violence; two scientists in Marf