The Auctioneer [Limited Artist's Edition, Signed by Christensen and Minor]
Irvine, CA: Suntup Editions, 2021. Fine / Fine. Item #48444
ISBN: 9781951151676
[Irvine, CA]: Suntup Editions, 2021. First Suntup Artist's Edition, Limited to 1000 copies. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, in publisher's slipcase; 314pp.; frontispiece. A Fine example. Signed by the illustrator and dust jacket artist on colophon in rear.
A bestseller upon release, Samson's only novel fell out of print and into relative obscurity after her death from brain cancer shortly after publication, but has seen a bit of a resurgence in recent years with its inclusion in Hendrix's Paperbacks from Hell series from Valancourt and this subsequent Suntup edition. An allegory for fascism landing somewhere between Shirley Jackson and Stephen King, the novel watches a small rural New Hampshire town whose inhabitants slowly lose themselves in their donations when the titular charismatic auctioneer comes to town.
Price: $125.00