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First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Hardcover issue. Original blue paper-covered boards with silver titles to the spine, in the Gary Marsh designed dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding firm, with a vertical crease along the spine and slight bumping to the corners and spine tips, the boards bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£15.50 to the lower front flap).

Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. Scarce thus. A satirical novel about the political and social landscape in Britain in the 1980s. Winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger.