FARRELL, James Gordon. Troubles. London: Jonathan Cape. 1970. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s slate grey cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the superb wraparound dust jacket designed by Bill Botten. A near fine copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and perhaps just a trifle rolled. Publisher’s topstain vivid with some mild spots here, and one or two to other edges, but fine throughout without issue. The dust jacket unclipped (45s /£2.25), very gently rubbed to spine tips, corners, and spine joints, a few mild marks. A very sharp example.
The author’s fourth novel and the first instalment of his acclaimed Empires trilogy—the others The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) and The Singapore Grip (1978). The novel follows Major Brendan Archer who goes to Ireland in pursuit of a hopeless love affair, set within the once-grand Majestic hotel, ‘this crumbling bastion of the Anglo-Irish upper classes’. Praised on publication, it notably won the Lost Man Booker Prize for 1970—awarded in 2010—beating Muriel Spark’s excellent The Driver’s Seat among others.
FARRELL, James Gordon. Troubles. London: Jonathan Cape. 1970. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s slate grey cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the superb wraparound dust jacket designed by Bill Botten. A near fine copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and perhaps just a trifle rolled. Publisher’s topstain vivid with some mild spots here, and one or two to other edges, but fine throughout without issue. The dust jacket unclipped (45s /£2.25), very gently rubbed to spine tips, corners, and spine joints, a few mild marks. A very sharp example.
The author’s fourth novel and the first instalment of his acclaimed Empires trilogy—the others The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) and The Singapore Grip (1978). The novel follows Major Brendan Archer who goes to Ireland in pursuit of a hopeless love affair, set within the once-grand Majestic hotel, ‘this crumbling bastion of the Anglo-Irish upper classes’. Praised on publication, it notably won the Lost Man Booker Prize for 1970—awarded in 2010—beating Muriel Spark’s excellent The Driver’s Seat among others.
