LEE LANGLEY. — False Pretences. Stories. (INSCRIBED)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Eva [Hoffman], with love, (and the hope that one of these days these stories may find something a bit lost in translation , if fortune smiles!). Lee 7-12-98". 8vo. 290pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge very lightly spotted, and with a touch of light toning to the paperstock. A very good copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Fifteen stories, the author's first collection of short fiction., Very Good, Fine