John Bayley — Alice: A Novel
London, Duckworth, 1994 . First edition. Cloth. A smart signed first edition presentation copy of this social comedy by John Bayley. The first edition. A presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. In the publisher's original black cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. A work by John Bayley, a British academic, literary critic and writer who was the Warton Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1974 to 1992. The novel is a social comedy in four parts, intertwining the thriller genre with domestic comedy. In the publisher's original cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. Very faint marks to boards. Dust wrapper is excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Author's ink inscription to title page. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Fine.