Signed limited edition. A very good copy in the original acetate jacket as issued. Pages browned. No 16 of 150 numbered copies. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 88007

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Title: Summer's Lease

Publisher: Viking

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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The author of Paradise Postponed brings his many fans a magical combination of social comedy, social commentary, and intriguing mystery when Molly Pargeter and her family rent a villa in Tuscany for the summer. As Molly becomes obsessed with the owners' lives, strange events occur.

About the Author:

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.

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