IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER Two African Journals

First edition, first printing. Original olive elephant-hide paper-covered boards, quarter-bound in orange cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers reproducing the author's manuscript. Top edge green. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and without inscriptions or stamps. In the fine dustwrapper. Not price-clipped, re-priced (£2.50 net) with the publisher's label covering the original price. A very attractive copy.

"These two journals, one preceding 'A Burnt-Out Case' and the other 'The Heart of the Matter' [...] may be of interest as an indication of the kind of raw material a novelist stores" (from the jacket).