Penelope Fitzgerald — Offshore
London , Collins, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A very smart copy of Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize winning novel Offshore, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition first impression copy of this work. Offshore is a novel that explores the emotional restlessness of houseboat dwellers that was inspired by the most difficult years of Fitzgerald's own life when she lived on an old Thames sailing barge. Penelope Fitzgerald was a novelist, poet and biographer who was listed in The Times fifty greatest British writers since 1945. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. A previous owner inscription to the front and rear free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper that is lovely. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.
