The Healing Art by A.N. WILSON - 1980-01-01

New York: Secker & Warburg, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A novel. A very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very slight wear to the top of the spine.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London England: Secker & Warburg, 1980. Hardback. Previous owners initials and date to inside cover. Slight wear to edge of D/J. Small tear to top edge of spine of D/J. Pamela Cowper, nearing forty, is facing death. Not as a remoste abstract proposition, but as an immediate reality. Her doctor had diagnosed cancer, and Pamela is told she has perhaps a matter of months to live. How does a lively, intelligent woman confront this appalling prospect? Pamela, a university lecturer in English, makes her won decisions - something to the alarm of her medical advisers. One journey is undertaken at the suggestions of her parish priest, the formidable Hereward Stickley. Another, to America, is Pamela's own idea. Both journeys, in a sense, misfire: both lead to discoveries, of a kind, but the revelations encountered prove to be deeply ambiguous. 278 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First… Read More

Secker & Warburg, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed. SIGNED, with a line drawn through his printed name, by A. N. Wilson on the title page. The volume is bumped on the spine ends and top front edge and there are four corner turned pages. The unclipped dust jacket, sleeved in mylar, is lightly soiled, edge rubbed, and has a light crease running the length of the front flap. From the library of of noted collector Rolland Comstock with his bookplate on the front pastedown under the flap.