The Search Tapa dura - 1983

London: Victor Gollancz, 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Near Fine,. A neat bright copy of the first edition, first printing in publisher's fawn boards with gilt lettering to spine,192 pages. Dustjacket designed by Pat Doyle. Price-clipped dustjacket, a little spotting to top edge. A Scottish academic searches for his long-lost brother in Australia. An attractive copy. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

London,, 1983. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 8vo. pp 192. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Front panel of jacket designed by Pat Doyle. Publisher�s file copy from the archive at Gollancz with their neat stamp ""File Copy"" on the front pastedown. ISBN: 0575032979

London. 1983. Gollancz. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0575032979. 192 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature Scotland . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Trevor Griersor, a Scottish university lecturer, is spending a term in Canberra, lecturing on Scottish authors. One day a stranger phones, with garbled news of Trevor's brother Norman who vanished in Australia many years before, and has since, according to the caller, become an alcoholic and been in trouble with the police. Trevor feels overwhelmed with guilt, for having neglected his brother for so long. He imagines him penniless now, a down-and-out, drunk in the gutter; or perhaps even lying in a pauper's grave. He resolves that he must trace him, and travels to Sydney to begin his search. The search takes him to government offices, police stations, the Salvation Army, a squalid doss-house; and his experiences drive him into a state of panic. But why does he feel so compelled to search? As Douglas, that ambiguous Iago-like figure who… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.