Tom Sharpe — Riotous Assembly
London, Secker and Warburg, 1971 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of British comic Tom Sharpe's first novel, set in Apartheid South Africa. The first edition, first impression, with Sharpe's signature tipped in to the title page.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.An exceptionally lovely copy of this first edition, a work scarcely found signed. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Light sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with small mark to back strip tail. Internally, firmly bound. Author's signature tipped in to title page. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.
