Tom Sharpe — Riotous Assembly

London, Secker & Warburg, 1971 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of British comic Tom Sharpe's debut novel, set in Apartheid South Africa. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Set in the fictitious town of Piemburg, in South Africa, Sharpe lampoons the apartheid, and the police officers who enforced it.The first novel from English satirical novelist Tom Sharpe, best known for 'Porterhouse Blue', and his series of 'Wilt' novels.With the former owner's inscription of Marie Nicholson to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Inscription to front free endpaper. Light sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with small loss of paper to back strip head and tail. Small closed tear to head of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.