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SHERIDAN,ALAN: : VACATION.[Author SIGNED copy.]

ON.BLAKE EDITIONS,1972.

ISBN 085321042X.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,black ink dedicatiom date and signature: 'For Ben,Who must finish his pacific work in the intervals between his histrionics.For £1 you have a resting place & a guide. Alan Sheridan To Her L (? - indecipherable) Sept.1978.' to top edge and left-hand corner of title-page, no price-clip to dw/dj.Further,to a b/w cemetery plan illustration to rear of book the author,again in black ink,has written 'Hic Iacet Ben.' with a line pointing towards a plot on the diagram (Here lies - the opening words of many an old tombstone inscription.)Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,white background with black lettering and b/w, scenic photographic illustrated upper panel and plain white rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Top edge slightly dust-soiled with minimal foxing/spotting; fore-edges brighter and cleaner,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/ dj,1st edn,2-238pp [paginated] includes preface,fictionalised diary written over 8 days,an appendix in style of newspaper cuttings to rear,plus [unpaginated] half-title page,SIGNED+dedicated+dated title-page,dedication,b/w cemetery plan with author inscrptn,and 2pp blanks at rear. A school acquaintance sent the author what he had written in the first week of October,1967.What he had written could not be called a novel,or even,in the form in which the author received it,a book of any kind.The acquaintance knew that what he had written (or compiled,for not all the material had actually been written by him) was of great interest as a 'human document'.Forming a framework,necessitated the writing of a good deal of additional material,spending many hours retracing his acquaintance's steps,visiting all the places he had visited,making notes,trying to reconstruct the events of that week.In this way,he built up a body of material that would serve as a complement to the more personal,more selective material that the acquaintance had provided. The most important item in the original material was a diary,written each day from Sunday,1st October,to Sunday,8th October. It was from this that the author gleaned most of his information as to his movements.It also determined the form of the book,which falls into eight sections, corresponding to those eight days.Indeed, the two outer sections - those covering the two Sundays - consist entirely of the diary entries for those days.In the rest of the book the author has also incorporated the other material that was provided - notes of various kinds, photostat pages from two books belonging to the public library,transcripts of tape-recordings.A small selection of the newspaper cuttings that he began to collect in June,1967 - three months prior to the week in question - have been placed separately in an appendix at the back of the book.These are not,strictly speaking, part of the story,and need not be read from beginning to end.However,the author will draw the reader's attention to individual items at certain points in the narrative.Author's debut novel. Since April 2013,and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its weight allowances, dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So, please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw.dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Author dedicated,SIGNED and date.

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