The Circle Game Unknown - 1971

W.H. Allen, London, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 550 g.; XII, 13-352 pages, last three pages blank, intentionally. Blue coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing to the backstrip edges and to the book corners. Few marks to the panels. Light dust marks and browning to the top text block edge and light browning to the other text block edges. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, with black background and white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and yellowing and faint foxing to the rear dustwrapper panel. A novel set amongst a group of middle class people who surround a famous author, Harold Yates Erskine. Dragged into the circle of people is a associate professor of English at a prestigious American University, who with his very pregnant wife, has taken a summer retreat next to Erskine. Then the professor finds himself orbiting between a natural home birth but his wife is planning and the very surreal… Leer más