The Incurable

8vo., brown linson boards, lettered in gilt to spine with publisher’s device to foot; upper edge stained orange; together in the pictorial dustwrapper (£1.25 net to front flap) showing a photograph of Nell Dunn by Sophie Baker; pp. [xii], 13-126, [ii]; a very good, sound copy, some light spotting, offsetting and dustiness to the upper edge of the text block; previous owner’s name in black ink to ffep; the wrapper with some light shelf marks but otherwise near-fine. 

First edition of this raw, humorous novel, which followed the success of Up the Junction (1963) and Poor Cow (1967). This story follows Maro Palmer, a woman who abandons her ailing husband and three children to follow a series of adventures in Europe and Northern Africa. 

A clean, smart copy. 

SKU: 1800167