Author: CLAVELL, James
Title: King Rat.
Description: London, Michael Joseph. No date [1962]. 8vo. In limp grey printed paper covers, text printed in blue, some surface soiling. (On the upper cover in ink 'Libel copy-Office use only'; in print to the upper righthand corner 'Uncorrected proof'). (Lower cover w. stamp in ink 'Field, Roscoe & Co., Bedford Square London' in ink a signature and date 23.11.62. (397, III (Blank) pp.). Rare early advance uncorrected proof copy of James Clavell's famous first novel, from the British publishers Michael Joseph. Probably only preceded by the (IV, 272 pp.) tall 4to unrevised proof copy distributed by Little, Brown and Company in Boston in the same year in America.

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