Funeral Rites

First UK edition. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Slightly bumped to corners. A near fine copy. In very good dust jacket; some chipping and short tears to spine ends and corner folds; 3cm closed tear along foot of lower flap fold. *** Originally published in French in 1948 in a limited edition of 1500 copies; a revised version was published by Gallimard in 1953, which is the basis for this first English translation.