Unusual Copy of The Broom of the System

TL;DR

A three-sentence query post, the shortest on the DFW Words blog: the blogger "Don" reports buying a copy of Wallace's first novel The Broom of the System with a cover he has never seen documented anywhere and asks whether anyone can identify it. It says nothing about Infinite Jest beyond a passing reference to Broom as a "pre-Infinite Jest" book, and advances no theory; it is a bibliographic curio.

Key claims

• Don "bought this at a used-book store a couple of years ago, figuring it was just an old pre-Infinite Jest version of Wallace's first novel."
• The cover appears undocumented: "After scouring the internet, I can't find any other copies with this cover or even any evidence that it exists." He asks whether anyone has seen the version before. (The post's image is not preserved in the text capture.)

Themes

Wallace's bibliography and the physical history of his books; Broom of the System as the pre-IJ first novel. No Infinite Jest interpretive theme.

Cross-references

• The other DFW Words posts, several of which turn on editions, printings, and textual variants of Infinite Jest; this is the Broom-side counterpart, a cover rather than a text variant.

Notable passages

• "After scouring the internet, I can't find any other copies with this cover or even any evidence that it exists."