JULIAN BARNES. — Talking it Over. A novel. (WITH A POSTCARD FROM THE AUTHOR)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 272pp. Beige cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with pale blue endpapers. Indications of careful removal of a bookplate from the front pastedown, and a small area of surface abrasion to the tip of the front free endpaper where a second smaller name ticket has been removed. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little fading to the spine panel. The author's sixth novel, humorously narrating a love triangle from all three perspectives. Laid-in is a picture postcard featuring a photograph of the author in, probably, Algeria. Upon the reverse Barnes has written a twelve line message to a correspondent ".I agree about the 'associative' interest in books being perhaps more important than their condition, so here is an associative postcard for you to tuck into 'Thinking it Over'.", Very Good, Very Good