First edition, first impression. x, 112pp. Grey boards with brown lettering on the spine. Brown endpaper. 8vo. Boards very slightly pushed at spine ends else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust wrapper, very slightly shelf worn. Dust wrapper now protected in Mylar-style wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.
An intimate journal of the last weeks of Naguib Mahfouz, the grand old man of Egyptian letters, novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.