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Joyce Carol Oates – You Must Remember This (The Franklin Library, 1987). Signed by the Author. 
Signed Limited First Edition – The Signed First Edition Society

A magnificent Signed First Edition of You Must Remember This, personally signed by Joyce Carol Oates for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Published by The Franklin Library, this fine volume represents one of the author’s most haunting and accomplished novels, beautifully bound in full leather with gilt decoration.

Set in upstate New York during the 1950s, You Must Remember This follows the complex and often turbulent lives of the Wechsler family. Against a backdrop of Cold War paranoia, McCarthyism, and social conformity, Oates crafts a deeply psychological exploration of love, repression, and identity. Her prose, both lyrical and unsettling, exposes the tensions of an America poised between innocence and anxiety.

Content
Combining the intimacy of family drama with the broader forces of American history, Oates creates a vivid portrait of moral disquiet and emotional fragility. It remains one of her major achievements of the decade and a striking reflection of her mastery of realism and psychological depth.

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	•	Publisher: The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
	•	Year: 1987
	•	Edition: Signed First Edition – The Signed First Edition Society
	•	Author’s Signature: Personally signed by Joyce Carol Oates
	•	Illustrator: Mike Kobaslch (frontispiece commissioned exclusively for this edition)
	•	Binding: Full genuine leather in deep green with ornate gilt design on spine and covers
	•	Endpapers: Marbled paper
	•	Ribbon Marker: Bound-in green satin ribbon
	•	Edges: All edges gilt
	•	Pages: 436

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Excellent condition. Binding tight and square, gilt bright and intact, pages crisp and clean. Appears unread.

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