TIPPING THE VELVET

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Paperback original. Publisher's pictorial card covers. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with slight rubbing and creasing at the extremities and wrinkling to the spine. The contents, with a previous owner's inscription on the first page, faint foxing to the first few pages and a dust mark to the bottom corner of the closed text-block edge, are otherwise clean throughout.

Signed by Sarah Waters in black ink on the title page. Scarce thus. Waters' acclaimed first book, a picaresque coming-of-age novel set in Victorian London about a young woman's experiences with lesbian relationships, show business and survival. It was adapted into a BBC television drama in 2002 starring Rachael Stirling and Keeley Hawes.