THE HOSPITAL SHIP
1976 · London
by Bax, Martin
London: Cape, 1976. Gilt cloth boards. Binding slightly bowed, small bump at one edge, otherwise a very good copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with small nick. First edition of the haunting first novel by the founder of AMBIT. An excellent association copy, inscribed by Bax on the free endsheet: "To Tall J & Ann for many more good times in Norfolk Martin." 'J' Laughlin published the American edition of this novel under his New Directions imprint. Bax has also signed the title-page in full. (Inventory #: WRCLIT37818)