Accession number
PML 192560
Creator
King, Francis, 1923-2011.
Published
London ; Harlow : Longmans, 1969.
Credit line
Man Booker Prize Collection, purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Notes
First issue, withdrawn.
Edition withdrawn due to libel charges by former Labour M.P.who charged that a female character in the book was based on him.
Differs from 1970 1st edition: with variant name of imprint, and slightly different colors on dust jacket cover art ; front flap of dust jacket lacks price of £1.50 p.
Library copy a review copy?
Edition withdrawn due to libel charges by former Labour M.P.who charged that a female character in the book was based on him.
Differs from 1970 1st edition: with variant name of imprint, and slightly different colors on dust jacket cover art ; front flap of dust jacket lacks price of £1.50 p.
Library copy a review copy?
Description
211 p. ; 21 cm
Provenance
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.
Binding
Salmon boards, in pictorial dust jacket, with an illustration by Duncan Grant.
Classification
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Department