GILES GORDON. — Enemies. A Novel About Friendship. (INSCRIBED)

The Harvester Press Ltd., Hassocks, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his friend and former client: "For Jay Neugeboren. Fine American writer, with admiration Giles Gordon 11/10/79 (or, as the Americans have it 10/11/79)". 8vo. 224pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A trace of bruising to the base of the backstrip, else a fine copy in fractionally rubbed and dust soiled dust wrapper. The author's fifth novel. Before taking up full-time writing Gordon was an editor and later literary agent, and whilst working for Gollancz in the late 1960s he served at the UK editor of Neugeboren's second novel (his first UK publication), 'Listen Ruben Fontanez'., Near Fine, Near Fine