Burns, John Horne — The Gallery

London, Secker and Warburg, 1948. Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine, 342 pp. First published in 1947, this is the first novel of American author John Horne Burns (1916-1953) and also the best-known of his three books. It takes place in Allied-occupied North Africa and Naples in 1944. VG-: Significant fading to the spine; the gilt is almost completely gone. Wear to the edges and corners of the boards. Clean body pages and solid binding.