Alan Hollinghurst - The Swimming-Pool Library

London, Chatto & Windus, 1988 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of Alan Hollinghurst's award-winning debut novel. Signed to the title page 'To Kate with best wishes Alan Hollinghurst&apos.The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Hollinghurst's novel follows a privileged, gay young man who saves the life of an elderly aristocrat who has a heart-attack in a public bathroom.The novel won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1988, and the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1989. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise excellent. Dust wrapper fine. Internally, firmly bound. Signed to title page. Pages age toned due to paper type, but clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Fine.

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