From the library of Marguerite Littman.
First edition, first printing; the book is in near-fine condition, with slight fading to the duck egg cloth at top and bottom and a knock to the lower back board. The dust jacket is in fine condition with minimal sunning at the top of the front panel. Chatwin’s marvellous first novel – about twin brothers living together in their old family house on the Welsh borders – won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize in 1982. It is dedicated to Francis Wyndham, Chatwin’s erstwhile editor at the Sunday Times, and Diana Melly, a close friend; both were writers too.
