CAVE, Nick. And the Ass Saw the Angel. London: Black Spring Press. 1989. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Phil Baines. This copy signed without dedication by the author to the red front endpaper, and dated in the year of publication. A fine copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding very tight and square, evidently unread. The contents clean and fine throughout. The dust jacket unclipped (£12.95) and fine but for a little rubbing around the crown, but a smart and very pleasing copy overall.
A terrific copy of the debut novel by the author and musician best known as the lead vocalist in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The novel here perhaps surprisingly a wonderfully written account of a mute boy raised by reckless parents in a religious community. It joins the Southern Gothic canon, likened to the stories of Flannery O’Connor which is not exaggerated praise according to this cataloguer.
CAVE, Nick. And the Ass Saw the Angel. London: Black Spring Press. 1989. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Phil Baines. This copy signed without dedication by the author to the red front endpaper, and dated in the year of publication. A fine copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding very tight and square, evidently unread. The contents clean and fine throughout. The dust jacket unclipped (£12.95) and fine but for a little rubbing around the crown, but a smart and very pleasing copy overall.
A terrific copy of the debut novel by the author and musician best known as the lead vocalist in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The novel here perhaps surprisingly a wonderfully written account of a mute boy raised by reckless parents in a religious community. It joins the Southern Gothic canon, likened to the stories of Flannery O’Connor which is not exaggerated praise according to this cataloguer.
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