Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first paperback edition, first printing of The Doctor is Sick by Anthony Burgess. Norton Paperback Edition – First Printing. Paperback Edition unstated, 1986 Norton. First Printing with full number line.
The exterior of this paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean, illustrated cover with no creases and a heavily sunned spine. Also with, lightly foxed page blocks, mild surface wear, strong title on a square spine, a tight binding with no spine cracks, lightly rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the names of two Blake and Wordsworth titles written on the inside cover and the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The inside covers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection. Appears to be unread.
Dr. Edwin Spindrift, a very ordinary lecturer in linguistics, has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condition. The night before he is to be operated on, Spindrift decides―shaven-headed, shirtless, and penniless―to postpone the surgery by escaping from the hospital. Things and people he hardly knew existed outside of his dictionaries swoop down on him as he careens through adventures in nighttime London.
Carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in manila envelope.
