SACRED HUNGER

First edition in this form. Signed by the author. Original brown cloth with paper title inlays lettered in brown and grey to the spine and upper board. Housed in a brown cloth slipcase. Illustrated with two woodcuts in black and red by Ezequiel Mabote. An excellent fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and bright throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the fine slipcase. A lovely copy.

Issued in a limited edition of 160 copies, this example is numbered 111 and signed and dated by Barry Unsworth in black ink on the title page. A special edition of the first chapter of Unsworth's Booker Prize-winning novel 'Sacred Hunger', issued by the Oak Tree Press, a private press that donates its profits to organisations assisting children living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, as the fifth volume in their 'First Chapters' series.