The Acrobat and Other Stories

First edition. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge blue. Small contemporary ownership inscription to ffe. In brown paper dust jacket with tears to folds and slight loss at spine ends. Front panel detached. Tape repair to reverse.*** A near fine copy in a good [only] dust jacket of Gerard Reve’s only book originally written in English. It consists of four stories: The Winter; The Acrobat; The Foreign Boy; and Gossamer. The dust jacket of this book is infamously frail and rarely found in fine condition.