Description
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp.[vi], 217, [1]. Original brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt, colour-printed dustjacket. A little toned. Blue offsetting to endpapers and front dustjacket flap from paper bag, now removed.
£120
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp.[vi], 217, [1]. Original brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt, colour-printed dustjacket. A little toned. Blue offsetting to endpapers and front dustjacket flap from paper bag, now removed.
Ackroyd's postmodern occult detective story was winner of Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Book Awards. This first printing is signed and dated to the title-page, Edinburgh, September 5 1990.