With the Booker Prize wraparound.

NEWBY, P. H. ~ Something to Answer For.

FIRST UK PRINTING. Faber and Faber, London: 1968.

8vo., bright orange cloth, lettered in blue to spine; in the orange, red and white printed dustwrapper (unclipped, priced 30s £1.50 net to front flap); together with the rare Booker Prize wraparound band 'Winner of the £5,000 Booker Prize 1969'; THE BOOK near-fine, a touched bumped at spine tips, with splash mark to upper edge; THE WRAPPER very good, retaining much of its original colour; with some creasing, most heavily so to the edge of the lower flap; some light even shelfwear and marking; the wraparound just a touch sunned to spine but else near-fine. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First UK edition, first printing. Winner of the inaugural Booker Prize. Scarce with the wraparound.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Very Good