Spaces of the Dark

First edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 296pp. Publisher’s red cloth boards stamped in silver to spine. Slightly slanted. Jacket price-clipped and slightly soiled; chipped to edges with some loss. *** Scarce copy of Nicholas Mosley’s first novel, a variation on the theme “soldier from the war returning”. Nicholas Mosley (1923-2017) was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction (including a biography on his father Sir Oswald Mosley). His novel The Impossible Object (1969) was shortlisted for the first Booker Prize and filmed as Story of a Love Story.