BARRY UNSWORTH. — Sugar and Rum. A novel.

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 247pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A hint of tanning to the leaf margins, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's ninth novel, detailing the exploits of a writer struggling to complete a novel about the Liverpool slave trade (Unsworth wrote this novel to try to get over his own writer's block during the writing of his Booker Winning 'Sacred Hunger', which was eventually published four years later)., Near Fine, Fine