Paul Scott — Staying on

London, Heinemann , 1977. First edition. Cloth. A bright third impression of this popular novel by Paul Scott. The first edition, third impression of this work in the same year as the first. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1977. Complete with price clipped dust wrapper, pricing present to sticker on front fly leaf £4.50 net. Story centred around the characters of Tusker and Lucy Smalley, the last British couple living in the small hill town of Pankot after Indian independence. Written by Paul Scott, English novelist best known for his tetralogy 'The Raj Quartet&apos. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with light bumping to head and tail of spin. Dust wrapper price clipped with some sunning to spine, light minor spotting internally to wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to fore edge not affecting pages that remain bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.