Description:
Published by Faber & Faber, London; 1977. First edition. 127pp. 8vo. Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine.Bound in original blue cloth boards, with title in red to spine. The binding is square and tight and in excellent condition, with just a touch of sunning to the top edge and one small faint mark to the bottom corner of the front board. Inside, the pages are clean and bright with just a little toning. There is a neat gift inscription to the front pastedown.
The book is housed in its original dust jacket. Other than a little darkening to the top edge and spine, and some fading to the spine, the jacket is in very smart condition indeed. Jacket has been price clipped. Duo-tone photograph of author to rear panel and blue and red lettering to front and spine.
Abba Abba was Burgess's 22nd novel. It is made up of two parts: the first is focussed on the final months of the life of John Keats and his encounters with poet Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli. The second presents the English translation of a sequence of… Read More