First edition, first impression. 224pp. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Cloth gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Text block edges spotted, top text block edge a little dust marked. Previous owner's name flamboyantly on front free endpaper, with separate ownership label. Hint of toning on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, not price clipped, rubbed on corners and spine ends, with small area of loss on lower leading corner, larger loss on verso, which is also marked and creased. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. A delicate novel of friendship which shifts between London, Morocco, Hampshire and Kenya, Somerset and the Seychelles.
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