First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Tom Stimpson illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, cloth and gilt bright, the contents clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, that is faded to the spine and otherwise without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£14.99 to the front flap).
Signed by Graham Swift in black ink on the title page. The Booker Prize winning author's fifth novel.
Stock code: 24583
£30
London: Picador.
1996