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William Morrow & Co, New York, 1985 William Morrow, New York, 1985. First trade edition. First printing, with full number line to 1. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy, with price ($18.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Light foxing on top edge, and a couple very faint, small soil marks on side edge of a still beautiful copy. This copy has been SIGNED by Irving on an unattached bookplate (as pictured).. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

The Cider House Rules is a novel by American writer John Irving, published in 1985. The story, set in rural Maine, deals with themes of birth, death, and the choices that shape our lives through the eyes of an orphaned boy, Homer Wells, and Dr. Wilbur Larch, an obstetrician and abortionist who runs the orphanage.