Funeral Rites

First UK edition. 256pp. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. Hardback in dust jacket. Publisher’s black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Light smudge to ffe and two tiny spots to lower endpapers. Jacket slightly scuffed to extremities with a few closed tears to head. Upper hinge with slight lifting to laminate. A very good copy. *** 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. SCARCE.