Summer's Lease. Limited Edition signed by John Mortimer

John Mortimer

ISBN 10: 0670819840 / ISBN 13: 9780670819843

Published by Viking / London Limited Editions, London, 1988

About this Item

1988 first edition, limited edition signed by Author. Size octavo, 9.25" tall, 288 pages. Marbled paper covered boards with green cloth spine section, gilt titles to the spine. Condition very good plus, spine has faded, pages are a little toned otherwise clean throughout. One of 150 numbered copies of the First Edition of Summer's Lease signed by the author and specially bound. No. 61. With a acetate cover dust jacket as issued. Seller Inventory # 018108

Bibliographic Details

Title: Summer's Lease. Limited Edition signed by ...

Publisher: Viking / London Limited Editions, London

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Quarter Cloth

Condition: Very Good+

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: Limited

About this title

Synopsis:

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.