Accession number
PML 192600
Creator
Johnson, B. S. (Bryan Stanley), 1933-1973.
Published
London : Trigram Press, 1971.
Credit line
Man Booker Prize Collection, purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Notes
Identified by John Fowles in his journals and elsewhere as one of the novels involved in the judges' debates for the 1971 Booker Prize (cf. The Journals: 1966-1990, p. 111).
"This first edition is limited to 126 copies of which 100 copies, numbered and signed by the author, are for sale. The remaining 26 copies, signed and lettered A to Z, are for the author's use."--Colophon.
Library has copy K.
"This first edition is limited to 126 copies of which 100 copies, numbered and signed by the author, are for sale. The remaining 26 copies, signed and lettered A to Z, are for the author's use."--Colophon.
Library has copy K.
Description
204 p. ; 22 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the author in the colophon: for Rayner Heppenstall, respected, exemplar, friend, Bryan, 24/5/71.
Provenance
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.
Binding
Brown boards, backed in cream cloth, in mylar dust jacket.
Classification
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Department