Still Such, originally written in 1988, set out to capture an entire lifetime in a few sentences. In its final form, James Salter has written an elegy of obsessions and encounters, filled with the fleeting memories of events that mark the transitions of a life, all seen in the familiar locales of a changing New York City.

This edition is printed in six-color offset by The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont under the supervision of Jerry Kelly. A photograph of James Salter by Duane Michals is printed as a 300-line duotone. The text is set in Adobe Sabon with design and typography by Stephen Doyle. Deluxe and Special Editions are on Rives BFK paper with Fabriano Ingres endpapers. Binding and slipcases are by Judi W. Conant. Slipcases are wrapped in hand-marbled papers. 24 pages, 9 x 6 inches. This book is a winner of the 1993 AIGA 50 Books Design Competition, and was exhibited in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Mixing Messages exhibition in 1996 surveying contemporary graphic design.

James Salter, widely recognized as one of America's best prose stylists, is the author of Dusk and Other Stories, Light Years, Solo Faces, The Arm of Flesh, The Hunters, and A Sport and a Pastime, which was recently republished as a Everyman Library Classic. A contributor to Esquire, Paris Review and Grand Street, he is currently writing a memoir entitled, Burning the Day, to be published by Random House in September 1997.

Trade Edition:
Printed in six-colors on Mohawk Vellum. Perfect bound in printed wrappers.
ISBN 1-884381-03-0. $20 Net

Special Edition:
Limited to 200 copies, numbered 1-200, signed by the author. Quarter-bound in cloth with printed Rives BFK covered boards, Fabriano endpapers and title label.
ISBN 1-884381-02-2. $200 Net.

Deluxe Edition:
Limited to 26 copies, lettered A-Z, signed by the author and photographer. Quarter-bound in cloth with printed Rives BFK paper-covered boards, Fabriano endpapers and stamped title. Presented in a slipcase.
ISBN 0-9625224-1-4. $400 Net.

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