Published by Secker & Warburg, London; 1982. 186pp. 8vo. First edition, first impression. **Signed by the author**. Condition: Fine/Near Fine.
Bound in original red cloth boards, the binding is tight and square and free from and damage or marks. Inside, the pages are clean and bright and free from blemishes, with just some speckling to the edges. The book is flat signed by the author to the title page.
The book is housed in its very smart original, unclipped, jacket. Aside from some rubbing and a few small marks, the jacket is in excellent, bright condition, with just a touch of fading to the spine.
In all, this is a very smart and collectible example of this witty and profoundly entertaining novel, which explores the twin destinies of Giles Fox, a lecherous twice divorced medievalist, and his daughter, Tibba, a lovely, stammering seventeen-year-old who daydreams of characters out of Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen novels. Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history, and religious views. This highly entertaining, smart, signed first edition would complement any modern firsts collection in which it sat.