The Bird of Night

Black cloth boards with blind stamp to upper board (as issued) and gilt lettering to spine. Top stain red. With small triangular sticker and a decorative book plate from travel and wine writer Stephen Brook to paste-down. Priced in purple marker to f.e.e. and with another price stamped to half-title. Price on dust jacket flap crossed out with new price added in purple. Closed tear to fold of head of lower panel. Jacket design by Sam Salant. *** Stated first American edition. One of Susan Hill’s most acclaimed novels: it was her only book to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the 1972 Whitbread Award.