RATHBONE, Julian. King Fisher Lives. London: Michael Joseph. 1976. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Chris Yates. A near fine copy, the cloth gently bumped and pushed to spine tips. Binding tight and square, the contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped, complete, just gently rubbed to spine foot, else a clean, bright example.
The author’s Booker Prize-shortlisted historical novel. A product of the swinging sixties, Lewis ‘King’ Fisher is a radical American academic directing a production of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens at an English university, where he also gives a lecture on Lord of the Flies. Elements of both works are echoed later in the book, where he and his lover, Nadia, head deep into the Spanish mountains in search of freedom. Events then take a darker turn as - cursing mankind and civilisation - the protagonists slip deeper and deeper into depravity.
RATHBONE, Julian. King Fisher Lives. London: Michael Joseph. 1976. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Chris Yates. A near fine copy, the cloth gently bumped and pushed to spine tips. Binding tight and square, the contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped, complete, just gently rubbed to spine foot, else a clean, bright example.
The author’s Booker Prize-shortlisted historical novel. A product of the swinging sixties, Lewis ‘King’ Fisher is a radical American academic directing a production of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens at an English university, where he also gives a lecture on Lord of the Flies. Elements of both works are echoed later in the book, where he and his lover, Nadia, head deep into the Spanish mountains in search of freedom. Events then take a darker turn as - cursing mankind and civilisation - the protagonists slip deeper and deeper into depravity.
