first edition
1966 · London
by Rhys, Jean
London: Andre Deutsch, 1966. First edition. First edition. 190 pp. Bound in publisher's pinkish red cloth covered boards with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good, foxed edges, bookplate on paste down, slight toning to cloth, in a Very Good dust jacket with a small laminate bubble in the front gutter, price-clipped, light wear, foxed front flap. A well-regarded novel by a Dominican-British author, widely regarded as a postcolonial response to Charlotte Bronte's classic Jane Eyre.
(Inventory #: 140944801)