First trade edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Rigby Graham illustrated dustwrapper. Frontispiece illustration by Rigby Graham. Monochrome vignettes. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without prvious owners' marks. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Loosely laid in a publisher's prospectus for this book, their first publication, complete with order form and mailing envelope.
Signed by Iain Sinclair in red ink and dated "11 Oct. 1987" on the title page. The author's and poet's first novel, a bibliomystery in which seedy Antiquarian booksellers investigate the Ripper murders.
Stock code: 28375
£50
Uppingham: Goldmark.
1987