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SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Gold title on light brown boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a coloured decorative floral bookplate to half title page and the author's signature to title page else clean and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket is complete with just a touch of wear to two corner tips. The 1984 Booker McConnell Prize winning author's novel, set in London and Venice, is an elegant, revealing, beatifully controlled study which builds to a startling unmasking of it's protagonists and their motives. Powerful in conception and rich in execution it is Brookner at her most poignant and thought provoking.