Out of the Shelter.

£750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication: “With very best wishes, David Lodge, Dec. 1970”. The author’s fourth book, but by far the scarcest in first edition form, as it was rapidly pulped by the publishers after a litany of mis-prints and other errors. Writing in his afterword to the revised edition of the novel in 1985, Lodge explained: “The text was riddled with mis-prints, nearly all introduced by the printer, and many of them grotesquely obvious (like u for you ) … the lines of type were bumpy, the spaces between the words grossly uneven and there were strange gaps within words …”. A near fine copy in dust jacket, slightly creased at the head and tail of the spine.

• Year: 1970

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