A Journey to the Interior

8vo., publisher’s blue cloth, backstrip lettered and decorated in silver with publisher’s device to foot; together in the unclipped dustwrapper (9s. 6d. net to front flap), designed by Nichols; pp. [iv], 5-240; a very good copy, with some light sunning, rubbing and pushing to spine tips; a couple of small spots internally, but for the most part clean; the wrapper sunned at backstrip and darkened to folds, wih some overall light rubbing to edges and some nicks and chips, the largest affecting head of spine, though not touching the lettering. 

First edition. 

The author’s debut novel, which follows the protagonist, Winter, as he sets off on a journey for a missing colleague in the desert Sultanate of Rusuka. Newby would go on to win the first ever Booker Prize in 1969.   

SKU: 1800185