First edition. Octavo. Publisher’s black cloth, lettered silver, in the original dustwrapper.
A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, slightly faded of spine.
The uncommon first edition of the second book in St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels.
PROVENANCE: Catherine Mansel-Lewis, friend of Edward St Aubyn, her ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.
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Author
Edward St Aubyn
Publisher
London: William Heinemann
Date
1992