Waterland [Signed]

London: Heinemann, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing ("First published in 1983" on copyright page) of the author's fourth—and best—book. 8vo: viii,[2],310pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine stamped in gold, pictorial dust jacket priced £7.95. Boldly signed by Swift on the title page. A Fine copy, very lightly read, tight, bright, and unmarked; Fine jacket without fault. Nominated for the Booker Prize; winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy), and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. An "engrossing tale of murder, incest and suicide. . . . The novel's fifty-two sections . . . [provide] pieces of a puzzle which spans three centuries, recording, with obsessive detail and painful urgency, significant events in the lives and times of [protagonist] Tom Crick's ancestors since the seventeenth century. . . . The novel's most memorable digression, the ten-page section 'About the Eel,' illustrates Crick's theory of the cyclical movement of history by using a river organism endemic to the Fens and endowed with remarkable genetic memory." (The Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).