First UK edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A fine tight copy in fine dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. Inscribed by the author in blue ink to the title page. Scarce thus.
The author and film maker's seventh novel and considered by many to be his most important. A key work of the "Nouveau Roman". Provenance: The signature was obtained by the previous owner in person at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith on the 26th November 1983.
Stock code: 5898
£275
London: John Calder.
1978