Wide Sargasso Sea
W.W. Norton and Company, 1966. 8vo, half teal blue cloth over white paper boards, gilt titles, 190pp. First American Edition, with full number line beginning in 1. Unclipped dust jacket (4.50) with light wear to edges, small creases to lower edge of front panel, short closed tear to spine crown, light rubbing and vertical streak to rear panel. Ownership signature to front endpaper, trace of fading to board edges, light bumping to board corners, foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The celebrated re-telling of Jane Eyre by the English-Dominican writer, repositioning the story of Antionette Conway as the daughter of a Jamaican family ruined by the emancipation of slaves. Introduction by Francis Wyndham. Dust jacket design by Bill Logan. A very good copy in mylar.
Price: $325.00