The Brightfount Diaries

by Brian Aldiss, Pearl Falconer

$225 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

London: Faber & Faber, Inc., 1955. First edition. Signed by Brain Aldiss on the title page. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket, unfaded and unclipped 12s 6d net . The British scifi author's first book, just plain old literature, but semi-autobiographical, about toiling in a large provincial bookshop. An excellent copy, from a collection of an old book scout that

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