First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with silver titles to the spine, in the Sarah Perkins designed dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with some toning to the paper stock, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£14.99 to the lower front flap).
The author's critically acclaimed debut novel and winner of the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year. This is the correct first edition and not the Book People book club edition often mistakenly catalogued as the first edition.
Stock code: 25983
£125
London: Doubleday.
1995