Accession number
PML 194959
Creator
Barnes, Julian.
Published
London : Jonathan Cape, 1980.
Credit line
Gift of Alyce Toonk, 2013.
Notes
First edition.
Library's copy annotated by the author.
Library's copy annotated by the author.
Description
176 p. ; 21 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
With extensive remarks and marginal comments in ink by the author on 70 pages (annotations in sienna date from 2007, in black from 2012), comprising approximately 2,300 words on the origins and process of writing the novel, its design, his relationship to editor Liz Calder, and reactions from his parents and friends. Inscribed on front fly-leaf: to Dad & Mum, with love from Julian, 1980.
Provenance
Author's presentation copy to his parents, 1980; by descent to the author and subsequently annotated and donated to English PEN, 2012; acquired by Alyce Toonk at the PEN benefit auction "First Editions, Second Thoughts," Sotheby's (London) 21.v.13, lot 3.
Binding
Grey cloth with silver lettering on spine, in black typographic dust jacket designed by Craig Dodd.
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