BIRDSONG

First edition, first printing. Original green cloth lettered in silver to the spine, in the dustwrapper designed by Garner Russell. Grey endpapers. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth fresh with a few dark shadows to the lower board. The contents are clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£14.99 on the front flap).

The author's fourth (and most celebrated) novel, and the second in his French trilogy (following 'The Girl at the Lion D'Or' and preceding 'Charlotte Gray'). It has been adapted for a three-part BBC radio production in 1997, as a play, first directed by Trevor Nunn in 2010, and as a two-part BBC television production in 2012. The cover painting is by the nineteenth-century French artist, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin.