Break in the Sun (David Thomson) soon to be presented for sale on the astounding BookLovers of Bath web site!
Published: London: Barrie & Rockcliff, 1965, Hardback in dust wrapper.
From the cover: This is a story of a man who loses his sanity and regains it. It is both tragic and comic, and the observation, sometimes through the eyes of a sane, humorous man, and sometimes with the abnormal vision of a madman, gives the book a quality few others could possess.
Daniel Cullen, whose youth was the subject of the authors much-praised earlier novel, Daniel (see back of jacket), is now forty-seven; he is happily married with children, a successful producer of documentary films. He is sent to Tanganyika to make a film on the occasion of Independence. But the film is never made.
Within a few hours of arriv…
Good in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded, more so at the spine, with short closed tear to the head of the spine. Gift inscription to the first blank. Endpapers and blanks age-toned. Edges of the text block lightly tanned. Text complete, clean and tight.
Red boards with White titling to the Spine. 253 pages. 8″ x 5¼”.
Of course, if you don’t like this one, may I sweet-talk you into considering additional gorgeous books that are part of my Fiction Author: T catalogue?