The Slipway

Some foxing to page edges. A 10mm tear at upper corner of front panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; This copy inscribed by the author on the title page: "Dear Reg, / Graham / December 10, 1973". [10], 216, [2 (blank)] pages. Orange papered boards with cream cloth spine. Brown lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 209 x 137mm. New Zealand author. The author's fourth novel. "The regular assault on the taproom of the Golden Age Hotel is only one skirmish in the life of Geoffrey Targett, heir to a nearly bankrupt New Zealand coastal shipping line, upholder of a grand family name and an emphatically less grand reality." - from dust-jacket blurb. "After four years working on ships - an experience later turned to account in his fourth and arguably his finest novel 'The Slipway' (1973) - he became a journalist, working 1958-77 for various New Zealand newspapers and in radio. [. . .] A more important autobiographical element in 'The Slipway' is Billing's long battle with alcholism, giving the book a compelling authenticity." - Richard Corballis, in Robinson and Wattie (1998) "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature".

Product Info

Publisher: The Viking Press

Year: (1973)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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