Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge in a new archival wrap. First Edition described, 2011 Little Brown. Printing 1, unstated.
The book is in Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a square spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and one lightly bumped corner. The interior of the book is in Fine condition with no marks or inscriptions. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear. First state jacket with the UK price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
In the rainswept summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold, in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
