Beryl Bainbridge — Injury Time

London, Duckworth, 1977. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Beryl Bainbridge's award winning novel, in the original dust wrapper and the vanishingly scarce wrap around band. The first edition, first impression. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper and the vanishingly scarce wrap around band.The winner of the 1977 Whitbread Book Of The Year award. Beryl Bainbridge's award winning novel, telling a story of Edward Freeman and the dinner party he holds at the house of the women he is having an affair with, which soon gets gate crashed by bank-robbers.  In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper and wrap around band. Externally lovely. The wrap is excellent with slight sunning to the spine. Light tidemark to the verso. The wrap around has sunning and a small tidemark to the spine, and small closed tears. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good Indeed.