JULIAN BARNES (writing as 'Dan Kavanagh'). — Fiddle City. A novel.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 173pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Edges, endpapers and occasional leaf margins lightly spotted. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a touch of spotting to the wrapper flaps. The author's second pseudonymous crime novel, detailing the exploits of his bi-sexual sleuth Duffy. The identity-concealing blurb on the rear panel of the dust wrapper a delight: "Dan Kavanagh was born in Co. Sligo in 1946. After an uncompromising adolescence, at nineteen he became assistant entertainments officer on a Japanese supertanker and travelled the world. He has been a pianist in a waterfront bar in Macao, a baggage handler at San Francisco International Airport, and has flown light planes on the Colombian cocaine route"., Very Good, Very Good