Rose Tremain — The Swimming Pool Season

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1985 . First edition. Cloth. A signed example of the first edition of Rose Tremain's about a family who decide to create the most beautiful swimming pool of all time. Flat signed by the author to the title page.The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper.The Times Literary Supplement described this as a 'tense and steamy narrative', while the Literary Review termed it 'a love story in the very best sense of the phrase..a very good novel as well as an enjoyable one&apos.Contemporary owner's inscription to front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with clipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Spotting to text block fore edge. Contemporary owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Light edgewear to dust wrapper back strip head, with spotting to flyleaves and dust wrapper reverse. Light sunning to head of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Foxing to title page, with pages otherwise generally clean and bright, and just a touch age toned to perimeters. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed.