Ian McEwan - First Love, Last Rites - Inscribed First Edition, An Association Copy Crime Fiction Publisher's printed wraps

Publisher's printed wraps

Bookseller's ticket to flyleaf

offset toning to endpapers

dust-jacket water marked and slightly rippled to lower half

Ian McEwan - First Love, Last Rites - Inscribed First Edition, An Association Copy Crime Fiction Publisher's printed wrapsMCEWAN, Ian (born 1948). First Love, Last Rites. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, first printing. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 165; [3]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket designed by Bill Botten, with printed price of 2. 50 net. Inscribed by the author to the flyleaf: "To Kate. Good luck in Oxford. Ian McEwan". Lightly handled, a touch of spotting to the top edge. Dust wrapper shows very well