Foreign Land (First American Edition)

NY: Viking, 1985. First U.S. edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. Remainder stamps lower edges. Quarter cream over gray paper-covered boards, with purple spine lettering. Original price intact on front flap ($16.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 352 pages, cream endpapers. After retiring from a colonial post in West Africa, George Grey returns to England, buys a small sailboat, and sets out alone to sea in a final bid for freedom and self-reinvention. Jonathan Raban (1942 2023) was a British novelist, travel writer, and critic whose works include "Hunting Mister Heartbreak," "Passage to Juneau," and "Waxwings." "Foreign Land" was his first novel and marked his transition from acclaimed travel writing to fiction. F4400.