Kaeti on Tour

London: The Sirius Book Company LTD, 1992 . First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9.5" by 6". Not Stated. A signed limited edition of Keith Roberts's penultimate literary work, with a loosely inserted signed typed letter from the author referring to his recent MS diagnosis. The first edition, first impression of this work, with this being number 118 of 150 copies signed by the author.With a loosely inserted two page typed letter, dated December 1993 and hand signed by the author. Addressed to 'Billy', and beginning 'this is to advise you that in effect I died in March 1990, when I was finally diagnoses as suffering from multiple sclerosis [...] a so far unexplained complication has led to me contributing a major piece of my anatomy to the hospital incinerator. I am therefore a one-legged hasbeen, at the age of fifty eight'. He goes on to discuss the challenges of authoring, producing and getting published this title, and concludes with 'for me, life has been reduced to a daily battle to avoid the clutches of the People Farms; the normal euphemism for them is Residential Homes'.Roberts died of complications due to multiple sclerosis in 1990.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper, and slip case.An entertaining collection of linked works of short fiction focused on the character of Kaeti, who the author in his letter describes as 'a slut'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper, and cloth covered slip case. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper in exceptional condition. Slip case fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine