THE TOPEKA SCHOOL by Ben Lerner. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, (2019). First edition, first printing; Signed First Editions Club issue. "First edition 2019" statement and first printing number code sequence 0 through 10 to the copyright page. SIGNED to the half-title page by the Kansas Notable Book and Believer Book Awards winning, and National Book Award finalist author. Issued with an A Capella Books Signed First Editions Club, artfully colored author photo-card, with author information printed to the flip-side. Lerner draws on his own experiences as a national champion debater at Topeka High School for this bildungsroman literary novel featuring a high school debater through to his adulthood years, with an undercurrent of 1990s through 1017 events and U.S. political strife. L.A. Times Book Prize winner, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Folio Prize, and National Book Critics Circle Awards. Lightly pushed to the lower spine edge, else very nearly fine, square, and tight in blue boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine, blue-and-white headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $27.00 price still intact to the front inner flap; together with a fine art color photo-card of the author. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!