Author: JOHN LANCHESTER.
Title: The Debt to Pleasure. A novel.
Description: Henry Holt, New York, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The first printing of the first American edition. 8vo. 251pp. Original publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. Head and tail bands. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's first book, a tour de force narrated by the unforgettable erudite gastronome Tarquin Winot; and rightful winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Book Award for first novel. Fine/Near Fine.

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