The Great Profundo and Other Stories

by Bernard MacLAVERTY, born 1942

£100 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

Signed

London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. Short stories . DEDICATION COPY. Octavo 23 x 15cm , pp.143; 1 . SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Dedication to author's daughter Ciara, inscription reads: 'with love, Next year will be better, Dad, 21. Oct. 87.' Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Jonathan Cape, jacket painting by Henri Matisse. Printed price of £9.95 to flap. Toning to textblock

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