Richard Adams — The Girl in a Swing
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1980 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first US edition of Richard Adams's popular novel, about an English ceramics dealer. The first US edition, first impression.In the publisher's original dust wrapper, price clipped. Flat signed by Adams to the title page.'The Girl in a Swing' follows the courtship and marriage between a man - pottery dealer Alan Desland - and a woman, with Alan proposing despite not knowing anything about his future wife's family or background. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Light sunning to dust wrapper at fold over front joint, with dust wrapper otherwise in exceptional condition. Internally, firmly bound. Flat signed to title page. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.
