A.L. Barker

A Heavy Feather (inscribed first edition)

London: Hogarth Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine (bit of light foxing to the edges of the text block) in fine, lightly toned dust jacket. Hardcover. 234 pp. Fiction. "This is the storyh of Almayer Jenkin's progress through life...[a] finely drawn portrai tof Almayer herself and the diverse people she meets and lives among.." A.L. (Audrey Lilian) Barker (d. 2002) was an English novelist and short story writer; she won the first Somerset Maugham Award in 1947 and was short listed for the Booker Prize in 1970. Fine / fine. Item #E18637
ISBN: 0701204524

Price: $45.00