JOHNSON, Denis. Jesus' Son. London: Faber & Faber. 1993. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Dirk van Dooren. An about fine example, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, unread, the contents clean with some marginal toning to the block from paper quality. The dust jacket unclipped (£14.99 net), just very slightly bumped to corners, but a smart, clean and crisp copy overall.
A collection of ten really quite marvellous yet still underrated ethereal short stories about those on the outer boundary of society; half-criminals, dregs, fiends, all pulled together by something surreal and unholy, feeling and purportedly actually being real people the author had met, or indeed his own self. Considered the author’s magnum opus, this British edition published one year after the US and Canadian editions.
JOHNSON, Denis. Jesus' Son. London: Faber & Faber. 1993. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Dirk van Dooren. An about fine example, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, unread, the contents clean with some marginal toning to the block from paper quality. The dust jacket unclipped (£14.99 net), just very slightly bumped to corners, but a smart, clean and crisp copy overall.
A collection of ten really quite marvellous yet still underrated ethereal short stories about those on the outer boundary of society; half-criminals, dregs, fiends, all pulled together by something surreal and unholy, feeling and purportedly actually being real people the author had met, or indeed his own self. Considered the author’s magnum opus, this British edition published one year after the US and Canadian editions.
