A PAINTER OF OUR TIME

First edition, first printing. Publisher's first state green cloth with silver titles to the spine, in the Peter de Francia illustrated dustwrapper. Frontispiece by Peter Petri. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm with just tiny bumps to the extremities, the cloth clean and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the better than very good, lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (18s net to the front flap).

The Booker Prize winning author's first novel, uncommon in the primary binding of green cloth with silver titles due to the book being withdrawn by the publisher under pressure from the Congress for Cultural Freedom, just a month after its first publication. The book was subsequently re-issued in brown cloth with black lettering.