Trawl by Johnson, Signed (2 results)

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Holden, John (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by the author on the title page with a dedication. The boards are clean and unmarked. Browning to the page edges and the pages are a little browned but otherwise unmarked. The jacket has a quarter inch chip out of the top right corner of the rear panel, one inch closed tears to the top left and top right corners of the front panel, small tears at each of the bottom corners, a little chipping at the top of the spine and some browning around the edges. First printing. Signed by Author(s).

London: Martin Secker & Warburg Limited. 1966. 8vo. Black cloth backed boards with gilt lettering; black and orange illustrated dust jacket designed by John Holden; pp. [7], 8-183, [1]; slight bumping and crease to bottom right corner with minimal closed tear to top of dust jacket as well as very minimal scuffing to head of spine; otherwise near fine. A signed presentation copy to Julia Trevelyan Oman, celebrated theatrical designer, who was also married to Roy Strong, director of the National Portrait Gallery and the V&A."I. always with I. one starts from. one and I share the same character. are one" begins this scarce edition of B.S. Johnsons beautiful third novel. Relayed in the first person, as if an internal monologue, the story revolves around the events of a three week voyage on a deep sea fishing trawler, yet is also a narrative which simultaneously attempts to reach the very heart of the human condition. Rather than a seasoned man of the ocean, the narrator suffers severely from debilitating sea-sickness and thus takes meandering journeys into past reflection towards his own version of resolution.