Anita Brookner
Lewis Percy & a Closed Eye
London, Jonathan Cape, 1989-1991. First edition. Cloth. Two very smart first edition novels from English writer and historian Anita Brookner. Two volumes. First editions. Written by Anita Brookner, an English novelist and art historian who was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. This set contains: Lewis Percy, 1989. A portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him. A Closed Eye, 1991. Exploring the paradoxes of the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original dust wrapper for Lewis Percy remains unclipped while the original dust wrapper for A Closed Eye has been price-clipped. Dust wrappers are also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.

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